Our fireplace, sad and mantle-less.
A mantel has been on our to-do list since we moved in. I looked at a few tutorials, but the first time my friend Kelly came over, she commented, "we have an extra mantel." Four months later, we finally got measurements to them and she and her husband confirmed the size of their mantel. So we took our corolla the five blocks to their place and tried to get this bad boy in the car.
It took several tries.
But! We got it home and here it is, in front of the fireplace, fitting perfectly. I was absolutely thrilled when we first saw it, since I was expecting a plain, generic mantel, but it's beautiful and fancy. I especially like how the center part comes to a point. We are going to paint it and do some repair work. We're not sure how many layers of paint are on it, but hopefully it's just one layer and can be sanded down pretty eaisly. Ideally we would sand it and stain it to be wood-colored, but I think that it might be best to go ahead and paint it, but we aren't sure what color. We could go with the same espresso brown as most of our other furniture (does Ikea sell black-brown paint?) or possibly the same latte color as the walls in the living room.
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