2010 27 Feb

Arranging And Wall Embelishing Recommendations

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Do you ever want you didn’t have a fireplace in your home, simply because it’s such a decorating headache? A new mantel shelf may change your mind. It may not be the mantelpiece, but how to dress it up with excellent wall decorating and accessories that is so confounding. The following recommendations will assist you perform perfect arrangement around your fireplace.

Furniture Arrangement tips

Furniture should confirm the presence of the fireplace, and never bar access to it. For example, you can place wing back chairs on either side of a fireplace, facing into the room at a diagonal. Set an occasional table in between for comfortable fireside reading and board games.

Wall Decor

A glance inside an interior decorating book at wall décor around fireplaces will affirm the many ways pictures or art may be shown on a wall. But not each arrangement and wall decorating idea is pleasing to the eye. For those of us who are not designers, here are a few ideas:

1. The simplest solution is a single, large framed work of art, a print, or photo.

2. Center it a bit toward the mantel.

3. Position equally sized framed pictures close together to form a larger shape.

4. Hang a decorative Wall Mirrors in a frame that complements the motif.


5. Line the fireplace mantel shelf with framed black and white photos of different sizes, with the unifying factor of a single color frame.

Fireplace Mantel

Before you bedeck your fireplace mantel, pay attention to what you wish to show off, and the impression you desire to provide. Your fireplace mantel should also reflect the whole feel of the room. Is it:

1. Formal? Consider candlesticks, Vases, a mantel clock, and brass wall sconces.

2. Lived-in-casual? Use natural, eclectic elements such as fresh flowers, a silk topiary, or drift wood.

3. Victorian? The Victorians were keen of their collections. Feel free to busy up your mantel with a doily runner, figurines, decorative plates, and perhaps a vase with peacock feathers.

4. Minimalist? Place a single sculpture, either centered on the mantel or on a side of the mantel that faces a corner while the other is open.

5. Cottage-by-the-beach? Arrange a collection of similar colored but different in size shells across the mantel. Or select things you treasure, like a jar of sea glass or a cast iron anchor.

Don’t feel bound by rules when arranging your fireplace mantel. Experiment with some wall decorating ideas such as Wall Clocks . The analytical mind will prefer symmetry, and the creative eye will prefer asymmetry. Both types need some sort of balance, so play with the things until you are get pleased.

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