All mantelpieces are made from solid first grade pine, painted in undercoat paint, ready to be painted with a final paint color of your choice. Please note, the photos show the item with a final paint layer but you will receive your piece with an undercoat layer only.

Salem, Massachusetts. By the 1820s, the Greek Revival style was ascendant, and with it came a plain, structural rather than refined style. After the Revolution, decorative mantels were popularized through builders’ pattern books published in London and America. Lighter than their robust Georgian precedents, these mantels interpreted the neoclassical designs of Robert Adam (thus the alternate name “Adamesque”). This era’s neoclassical wave was called the Federal style in this country. Composition ornament (applied urns, swags, and flowerpots) was already available, though mantels were also carved entirely of wood, like those by Samuel McIntire inRENAISSANCE REVIVAL Formal, delicately carved mantel-pieces once again are likely to include an overmantel. Antique, vintage, and reproduction fireplace mantels and accessories are available for your new construction or to enhance an existing fireplace.

Please, note that all the sample pictures feature 140 cm long shelves, your perfect fit will depend on the specific place you intend to install it. Bring out the inherent (or preferred) style of your bungalow or Colonial Revival house with a well-dressed hearth and mantel. GREEK REVIVAL These mantels are usually based on the plain, post-and-lintel construction of Greek temples. White marble is the height of Athenian splendor, but most American Greek Revival mantels are of wood, sometimes faux-painted with veining.In an 18th-century Massachusetts house, the highlight of a parlor added in the 1780s is a beautiful, hand-carved mantel in fine Federal style. Note the delicacy of mouldings, dentils, and ornament. The rosette frieze is repeated in the chair rail. Turkish seating and an ebonized Bugatti table flank the original fireplace with overmantel. Bird’s-eye maple is featured in much of the woodwork. The exact place of the corbels under the mantel shelf can be chosen by you at the time of installation. Over the mantel Traditional options for the wall over the mantel include artwork, a mirror, taxidermy, or a textile. In the first quarter of the 20th century, art was often a plein-air or landscape painting, a portrait, or such period favorites as Edward Curtis prints of Native Americans. When a mirror was used, often it was beveled glass set into mouldings over the hearth, rather than a florid piece hung on the wall, as in previous periods. Animal heads continued to be popular in Western and Rustic homes or dens. The floating mantel shelf is very easy to assemble and install, and comes with all the necessary hardware pieces and photo instructions. Help and assistance available via mail or phone.

A mantel should not be shorter than the width of the fireplace including the hearth. A wood mantel must be at least six inches from the firebox, and should extend a minimum of three inches beyond the surround. The mantel overlaps the surround. The entablature (head, lintel, or frieze) below the shelf and its bed moulding should be deeper than each leg is wide. Mantel legs resting on the hearth look better and meet modern fire codes. Available in three lengths/widths: 120cm (47''), 140cm (55'') cm and 165cm (65''), with or without corbels. An 1811 country mantel with little ornamentation nevertheless has fluted pilasters and dentil moulding. ROCOCO Many mid-19th-century marble mantels have an arched firebox opening. The spandrels forming the arch often overflow with carved fruits, leaves and flowers, or cherubic figures in three-dimensional relief. Wood mantels are carved. AESTHETIC/EASTLAKE With influences from medieval to Turkish to Japanese, the mantel proper may be flat with minimal decoration, while the overmantel is an elaborate construction of shelves, mirrors, and niches for the display of worldy objets d’art.

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All options are available from the drop-down ''length'' list menu located between the title and the "Buy it now" button. When you select an option from this list, the picture will change, showing you the the length/width, respectively with or w/o corbels and the price. GOTHIC REVIVAL These mantels accentuate the perpendicular. The firebox opening or overmantel typically features a pointed Gothic or shallow Tudor arch. Parts of a mantelpiece are labeled on this drawing of the formal Georgian fireplace in the West Parlor at Washington’s Mount Vernon. Not every mantel has an overmantel, which may end with crown moulding at the ceiling. The surround and mantel itself vary in size and proportion by style. REVIVALS The most widespread designs of the early 20th century are Colonial Revival. Wood is often painted in an off-white color. Various arch shapes define Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival mantels. Mantel Beauty ADAM/FEDERAL Adamesque or Federal-era mantels feature low-relief carved and reeded ornament such as scrolls, urns, flowers, eagles, and mythological figures. By 1800, the broken pediment had disappeared. Overmantels were scarce.