Sage advice from a seasoned carpenter. In the finish carpentry world, fireplace mantels are often the aesthetic showpiece of a room. People use mantels to display family photos, treasured artworks, ...

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Fall is here and it's time to celebrate this glorious season in your decor. One of the easiest -- and most powerful -- places you can trick up for autumn is the fireplace mantel. Depending upon how ...

As the unrivaled focal point in a room, your fireplace mantel is the star of the show. So it's fun to give this all-important spot a new look every so often. Here are three very different -- but ...

What do you do if you're ecologically-minded, like the natural look, and want to make your house festive for the holidays? You make a natural-themed mantel display! There is so much design inspiration ...

You’d think the thin strips of wood above our fireplaces were gangplanks the way they make us quake at the knees when it’s time to dress them up for the holidays. Even those who love to decorate for ...

Some years I go at my holiday decorating with great gusto, fueled by a long list of ambitious decorating projects I can't wait to try. (Once I hung a huge fallen branch from the ceiling in my dining ...