вторник, 22 декември 2015 г.

Tips On 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.

Old seasoned and rough edged timber taken from old barns and houses can be used to create a rustic feel when decorating a fireplace mantle with. They tend to look the rough and tough to the eye and touch making the mantle seems artless. Carvings can also be made in a bid to decorate the wood used. The wood can be of different varieties such as pine and white oak among many others.

Earthly looks on bricks and stone usually reflect old age. Therefore, making a fire place mantel out of brick or stone makes it look aged. The patterns and designed of stone or bricks used too hugely affects the feel and look of a place. A stone or brick laid mantle tends to have a rustic feel and touch.

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.

Therefore, since the rustic hearth mantels are sensitive and more characterized, it is important to be very precise while decorating. Overdoing the decoration makes the mantle look cluttered and messy. One should pay close attention to the looks while decorating. But since decoration is all about personal choices and preferences, there is also room left for innovation and creativeness.




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