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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spring has sprung—on your mantel!

That's why we've tapped a few design pros to share the common holiday mantel decorating mistakes to avoid at all costs—think overlooking a color palette, ignoring proportions, and overcrowding the ...

Spring is in the air, and now is the time to ditch darker colors, along with heavy materials and textures to welcome all things that embody the renewal that comes with the season. While a fireplace ...

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 ...