Looking at the staircase, you’re delightfully taking it all in the stately carved wood newels, the graceful curves of the railing and wood balusters in harmonious and perfect repetition. For centuries staircase balustrade has been the most ornamental and finely crafted built-in furniture in the home serving as a focal point of the home entry. […]
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If you have a beautiful large fireplace than you could experience problems to find a large enough mantle to accommodate the larger than average firebox consider making a custom mantle. With the full range of fireplace mantel parts such as wood carvings you can find on our website, you can make your very own mantle […]
In many homes, the fireplace is not designed to be an essential focal point of a room. To keep costs down in a lot of homes builders and developers installed zero-clearance fireplace mantels with inexpensive marble or granite surround set within uninspired, prefabricated wood mantel. The fireplace mantels are usually painted white to match the […]
Fireplace mantels are powerful symbols of domestic life. Wood mantels have always received special attention by designers and architects. Today’s reproduction fireplace mantels remain one of the best examples of the major architectural periods. Decorative fireplace mantels weren’t common in American homes until later in the Colonial period. Early settlers did little to beautify their […]
Fireplace mantels and fireplace mantel shelves are excellent opportunities for adding architectural elements to your home. Fireplace mantel often serves as focal points in a room. Decorative mantel earned its important role in interior architecture. A fireplace mantel is a decorative frame that surrounds the fireplace and facing on the top and two sides. The […]
It is a universal truth: there is no other room more favored in a home than the kitchen. Kitchens seem to possess an almost magnetic quality. Perhaps its mysterious ability to draw us into the room can be attributed to mankind’s fascination with fire and the comforting properties of the hearth. Or perhaps we are […]
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Wood Onlays – making your home a memorable place to visit and an inviting place to live
An onlay is a term that describes an object that decorates the surface of another object. In other words, the decorative treatment will literally lay on the object’s surface. When onlays are carved from wood, the goal is to create the illusion that the onlay is carved from the wooden surface it adorns. Carved wood […]
Have you ever wanted to jazz up your decor, but didn’t really want to do an entire redesign? There is an easy solution for dressing up plain cabinets, drawers, doors, crown moldings and other surfaces in need of a little something to bring out the personality of your home. These premium decorative wood carvings can […]
After you have looked at your competitors and decided who the people you would need to market toward are, you should look back and evaluate of your kitchen. Most likely the work that will need to be done is purely topical. If you must, though, do serious renovations you should consider doing so because the […]
A crucial component of maximizing wall space is the installation of counters. An important design decision is how to treat the surface space of counters, that is, what material to use. You’ll need ample horizontal surfaces in these rooms for practical reasons, and because of their visual prominence, making them attractive as well as useful […]