Favorite Building A Mantel
Materials used for the mantel range from expensive wood to brick to beautiful stone.
Building a mantel. Heres a quick sketch with the dimensions but I suspect these measurements will vary for you depending on the size of your mantel. Attach the legs to the breast by screwing plywood cleats across their back seams. A fireplace mantel can be natural wood or painted.
Cut a breastplate from a 1x12 board to fit around the brace. The idea is to build a faux mantel essentially a mitered box with capped ends. His old mantel was to tall and did not work where he wanted the mount.
Use wood glue and brad nails to join the boards together. When building a fireplace mantel from scratch you must focus on making sure the unit is. There are countless styles to model after.
Modern fireplace mantels are designed to enhance the grandeur of an interior room. He just got done hanging the ship lap on his wall and we are going to build the mantel under his mounted tv. Cut three poplar boards to size to form the vertical pilasters and horizontal frieze of the fireplace mantel.
Cut and Add the Trim. Steps for building a custom mantel. If you see the picture it will go.
Basically youre building a. Youll likely use a 16 board for the framework and the 110 for the front piece. You have many options when it comes to fireplace design like fuel types locations firebox liners ventilation systems and masonry treatments.