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Hot Tips for Styling up your Fireplace Mantel
fireplace mantels provide an ideal focal point in a room, but many homes this translates into a missed opportunity. Instead, the mantel becomes a dusty shelf covered with family photos and trinkets. Sometimes, when a particular area the house has looked the same for a long time, we got used to it. Do not stop thinking about what could be.
The best way to start a new creation is a blank canvas. Clean everything off the mantle and the dust of the cobwebs. Here are some tips for deciding what is shown and how.
Try leaning pieces of art and / or mirrors in the mantle as opposed to hanging them. Place the largest piece first, a little outside the center, overlapping in other parts little by little. This gives the sense of you added them randomly through the years.
If you want to hang above a mantle, creating a wallpaper effect by hanging a number almost identical parts in a grid like fashion. They should start just above the platform and go almost to the ceiling.
Black and white photographs in the same style or by the same artist who offered a bold and dramatic effect.
If you are hanging a single painting or a mirror above a fireplace, always include a sculpture or a 2-dimensional work of art on the platform to add interest.
Display collections by grouping them with other similar colors or themes. For example, a collection of bottles or display a white vases of all shapes and sizes vary. The combination of media will create an effect too messy, as would be a large collection of small ornaments.
Try an absence of decoration of a totally different approach. Paint the wall behind the fireplace of a bold color, and let it become your paint coordination. Place a simple vase or a group of tea candles on the mantel.
The classic use of candles for decorating a fireplace that never gets old. Make it interesting by creating a variety of heights and sizes, for example, try to balance a vase high at one end with a small group sailing on the other. A tiered agreement also provides visual interest, on or off. A simple version is to show blocks glass stack in different heights and directions, then place votive candles in simple blocks.
Eye catching floral silk whether actual or a ornate vase to create a stunning focal point in a mantel.
Try combining different textures and styles for a varied look. Decorating a fireplace modern featuring antiques can be quite dramatic.
If you find yourself stuck, try using the "Three Plus One" trick decoration. Choose three objects that share a common theme or color. For a recreation room may choose a framed print of sports and some pitchers of beer. For a beach house, you may consider some shells, coral, or a ship model. Whatever you choose, it should fit the theme of the room and reflect your interests. Line up in an interesting way, perhaps bringing forward or overlapping slightly. Leave some space after the last object to have some space at the end of the mantelpiece. Then select an object larger, usually about twice the size of the three objects, placing it at the other end of the platform. You should have something in common with other articles a common theme or color.
When it comes to decorating, do not despair, you may not know exactly what the final product will look like, but it is important We are trying a lot of different approaches, and suddenly you find the look that fits.
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John Ferguson, co-owner of Ferguson Antiques rare beer stein