Home Design Interior Monnie: Decorating A Corner Fireplace

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Decorating A Corner Fireplace

My new great room has a corner fireplace with a deep white mantel. I am thinking of setting a large landscape picture on it or a collection of large family photos. Since it is a large triangular mantel, I will not hang any artwork. Any suggestions or The home that radio and television personality Terry Meiners and his wife, Mary, purchased steered toward the contemporary side, but Mary had other ideas when formulating a decorating plan accent wall frames the fireplace with a flat-screen television U-shaped floor plan wherein a living room with stacked stone fireplace melts into an oversized dining space before it hooks to the right where there's a family room with a flagstone-faced corner fireplace, an informal dining spot with built-in wet bar and Erin McGovern of Goshen was determined to update her white faux-brick fireplace If you have a decorating dilemma, e-mail her at claudia'scorner@th-record.com or write to her at Claudia's Corner, c/o Times Herald-Record, 40 Mulberry St., Middletown The fireplace does not have a large mantel so various A lantern with battery-operated candles and a Santa inside is placed on a wreath on the corner of the bar. A 9-foot Christmas tree is decorated with sophisticated burgundy and gold floral stems Formal decorating is starting to see a resurgence From lamps to end tables, chairs to vases on the fireplace mantel, pairs exude elegance. Whether it's a picture window or a fireplace, all formal designs also work to emphasize a room's natural focal .

A realistic alternative for those of us whose DNA is missing the decorating gene is to work incrementally Choose one zone -- a dull corner, a bay window, a fireplace wall -- and define its shortcomings. Then ponder possible solutions to that particular Whether you string them around the stairway, between tree branches, or lay them loose on the fireplace mantel they can reused as part of your Thanksgiving decorating. Bring them indoors and stack them in a corner, line them along interior stairways A floral arrangement also could be displayed on a small or low corner table for the items your guest will bring! Q: When decorating any room, where is the actual beginning point? A: A bed or a fireplace anchors a room. When you have your piece firmly Q: We built a small addition onto our family room in order to accommodate a new wood-burning fireplace. Although the addition has only added about seven feet to the room, it now feels huge and a bit overwhelming to decorate in one corner, and a .