Here the items of artwork, at either end of the mantel are of a similar height, while the middle piece is at the same height as the vase of foliage, creating a good balance of weight. Gaudens designed and carved magnificent mantels, some of which can be found on display in the world's great museums. Her observations are a delight and wrapped around in her trademark cutting and frequently scathing voice whether she's bemoaning kebab canapes at Buckingham Palace (and why won't the 'flunkeys' take back the cocktail sticks? This Victorian terraced house was transformed into a modern family home by interior designers Turner Pocock.

Our range of solid oak beam fireplaces and mantelpieces have been hand worked by our skilled team and are available in a massive range of sizes.

Mantelpieces first appeared in England from the 1100s, around the same time that some larger homes began to have more segregated spaces, with different rooms open to different stratas of the family or with different functions. Our top tip when displaying your treasure trove of favourite things is to group things in odd numbers to create an arrangement that is visually more aesthetic,’ says Daisy Coombes. Our Georgian style, hand-carved mantelpieces and pine fire surrounds are some of our most popular products and have won us international acclaim. Whether you want to replace the old fire surround in your Victorian home or add a sense of traditional Georgian character into your contemporary house, Chesneys can create the right mantelpiece for you.

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Our classic range of Baltic Pine fire surrounds and fireplaces has four finishing options; traditional, limed, antique or painted, however with our Bespoke service the options for designs, timbers, sizes and finishes are almost endless! So intelligent and humorous an author does not come around very often and we are lucky to have the books she left us, while mourning that she was excited about writing a book which she will not now finish and that, sadly, we cannot now get to read. To prevent dark fireplace mantelpiece ideas becoming flat add a boost of freshness with foliage and flashes of green in artwork and candles. It consists on selected writing from the London Review of books which she is a frequent reviewer for - including her essay Royal Bodies which caused quite a stir a few years ago, (although for those of a calmer disposition with relation to anything to do with royalty it is hard to see why). His touchiness, his vulnerability, his tendency to flinch from people, suggests an active sense of shame,” she concludes.Mantel points out that he suffered the loss of his mother and the desertion of his father when he was six. The prose is as good as Mantel's always is, and, while some readers will no doubt find her topics dry, I think most people who read and enjoy the likes of Wolf Hall will probably find this engaging, too. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Complete with a hearth, back panel, mantelpiece and fire, our fireplace suites are perfect for those who want the whole fireplace package.