ELEGANT AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL: This modern natural wood fireplace mantel makes a warm and inviting focus for your fireplace. The floating shelf rustic wood mantel makes an elegant centerpiece in ...

A fireplace mantel is the decorative piece that goes around a fireplace. This typically consists of a shelf above the fireplace, which often extends down into two legs or pillars on either side of it.

Building a Custom Mantel I was recently asked to build a custom fireplace mantel to cover up a painted brick fireplace with a wood top shelf. The existing fireplace brick was corbelled out to ...

A mantel is most easily described as the shelf above a fireplace. Muller says there are two types of mantels: a free-hanging shelf and a surround, in which the mantelpiece is attached to vertical ...