Sunday 20 December 2015

Important Advice On Decorating Rustic Fireplace Mantels

Posted by Unknown at 15:04
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.

A stone built mantle usually has much bucolic character. The earthly elements; bricks or stones can be loosely arranged in a pattern or random making the mantle look aged and a bit rough. The arrangement can also be made different shapes and patterns in order to achieve more traditional designs would give the fireplace a rustic look.

Pictures, art or portraits can also be able to transform a fireplace from a modern look-alike hearth to a pastoral one. Old paintings give a feelings old age to a walls and the mantle. They can be the cheapest way to decorate the mantle since they do not have to be expensive, only of the right color and texture and they will do just fine.

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.

Sculptures and ornaments placed in a hearth mantle usually have a great effect in the look and feel of a mantle. Old age and unfinished sculptures inspire an impression of pre modern times to a place or thing. Therefore, having such aged sculptures would paint and impression of a mantel, unrefined to the eye. This includes wood carvings, metal sculptures and ornaments collected on the past.

One can make a mantle be more elegant and old looking by having icons to the theme you intent to have on. If one would want to decorate the mantle with a farmhouse theme, farm icons or sculptures should be used as the decorative items. A wild theme would incorporate wild colors and animal sculptures if not paintings.

Having known the basics to making the mantle seem old and rustic, one can be able to decide on what to pick up while decorating the fireplace. But it is also allowed for one to be creative since the decorating is much dictated by personal tastes and preferences. However, precautions are to be taken too to avoid over doing the decorations that would rather turn up to be mess.




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