Thursday, December 10, 2015

A Guide To Decorating Rustic Fireplace Mantels

By Nancy Harris


Most asymmetrical features and build-ins in any setting are usually appealing to the eyes. When it comes to decorating the rustic fireplace mantels, they tend to add a sophisticated look that is both elegant and beautiful. Therefore, any decoration made should be a complement to the rough edgy look in the fireplace. Beautiful rustic fireplace mantles do not only warm up people but their eyes too. It is therefore important to know how to decorate the mantle in a bid to impress more.

A fireplace mantle can be made or decorated with old timber beams that are seasoned to make them last. The old timber beams have a rough and tough aesthetic and tend to offer a rustic look to the mantle. The wood can be made into joints, have metal pins or straps that will help it achieve a more vintage look.

Any earthly looks tend to make a hearth look aged. The stone and bricks made mantles that can be of different patterns or arrangement giving them that rough look. The masonry of the mantle may be made by cementing or arranging of the bricks on to one another. The stones may be irregular shaped, regularly, rough edged or smooth among many other looks that can available.

Art is the second best language human understands. Therefore, art and pictures usually have a lot sentimental value to us. The art and pictures that are hanged on a hearth mantle determine the look and the feel of the place. Old, less colorful and unfinished art or paintings have much of effect in turning a fireplace look old rustic.

Color inspires the feel to a place or room. Therefore, color of paint can change the look from a normal to old and rustic looking wall or mantle. Painting techniques applied to some colors like vintage white oak, red oak among others have an effect to make thing look old, rough and tough. Therefore, if the painting is done in the right way, the final outlook would be nothing less from natural.

Ornaments and sculptures are also very important on the decoration of the mantle. Old looking sculptures and collectible ornaments can be useful into making a fire-place look rustic. Ornaments can be shells while sculptures can be made of wood carvings or metal sculptures. Depending on the era the sculptures display is from, the hearth will end up to be seemingly that old too. Example, a Viking axe or shield would invoke the times the Vikings lived.

A themed setting on top of a shelf or the mantle can make the hearth look more sylvan. A picture of a farm setting cut into stone or wood and artifacts from a certain place or country can make the mood be reminiscent to and old place. This will give a natural feel to mantle.

No matter the decoration, one should not feel closed in to not expressing his or her own personal choices and preferences. Since decoration is a matter of personal sense of style, experimentation is allowed. But keenness should be observed to avoid overdoing and cluttering the mantle. Simple is always best to achieve sophistication and elegance to antiques.




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