Usually three or symmetry, number and size of objects that are displayed, spatial mantelpiece is no easy task. Here are a few tips to help you decorate your mantel like the professionals do the decorating! As with everything else on the decoration, you have to like what you include in your facility. That the "rules" say that a mirror visually expands a room if it is not what you had in mind for your mantel, and many follow your instinct. Finally, it is you who live in the house and will observe every day how the results of your work … it must please you! Everything is a matter of proportions. Before the decorative elements in place, a step back to really look at your home and the fur clothes. It is very solid? Then a series of small objects do not make it justice. Is it rather the opposite menu? Well, then read articles on smaller units choose to not steal the show, the main attraction remains the focus. Car to let the architecture of the house shine by itself. Beamed barn wood, stone wall or fitted with decorative boxes, sometimes the wall where the fireplace is decorative enough to require nothing more really decorative elements. So let your home to the center of the room, without distraction. Create a distraction. In a cavernous room, or just to wear as a little outdated the other eye on the hearth of a house, install a mirror, a work of art or a collection of smaller pictures above the fireplace frame. Symmetrically or asymmetrically placed deliberately to attract the eye to one side or the other of the jacket, so that collisions of the wall effect dress and entertain the eye upward. Finally, enjoy the area ideal presentation of your mantelpiece in a place that develops and changes with the seasons provided.