(note: sorry this is being published so early - I have to go to the airport to pick up my sweet hubby!)
Welcome to this month's What's On Your Wall Wednesday!
This fun event allows you to showcase your Wallscapes...
Wallnettes (nope that's not a new kind of nut - it's a Wall Vignette) lol....and anything that "hangs" or is party of a wall.
This week - I am showcasing my Family Room Fireplace/Mantle and the print which is hanging above it.
Our Family Room has been a project in the making for about two years. It was a room addition, and the building process was so tramatic - I think we were just happy to get it done. But, I couldn't take it anymore. I insisted we order new furniture, and even though I allowed Mr Grits the leadway on the design. (I know - it was kinda scary) 
The room features a large, custom built bar - or pub as my husband so fondly calls it. (I will showcase that area next week for Met Monday) So the style inevidently leaned towards English.
On my very last "flea-venture" I took to England, I came across this dust covered carved mantle. I looked like the Beverly Hillbillies driving back across the English Channel (well, I didn't drive but I did take the Chunnel). I had this mantle strapped on top of my van.
We have always set up a "fireplace" no matter where we went. This mantle has been in my bedroom, in a sitting room, in a dining room - and now it resides in the our Family Room.
We used a sheet of faux-brick paneling to create a brick surround, and with the fireplace screen in front - it has fooled a lot of people.
I love the scenery print hanging above. It could be scenery from anywhere in the world, but it sure does remind me of the rolling hillsides in England.
The top of the mantle is decorated with ivy topiaries, candles, old leather-bound books and a pair of English Staffordshire dogs.
That's my Fireplace Wallnette for this week. I hope you enjoyed it.
So? What's On Your Wall?
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I look forward to seeing all of your Wallscapes, Wallnettes... or whatever they may be.
Hugs, Barb
Yes, you fooled me with that "fireplace." I love antique mantels, but I've never been able to figure out a good way to use them with a real fireplace. Building codes are so strict these days, and the older mantels are just too small for the new fireboxes and would put the wood too close to the firebox to meet code. Your idea is very clever.
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Yup, ya got me too - I never woulda guessed that fireplace wasn't real. Love the pic over the mantle. Btw, how DO you get a mantle home from England??
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty & yep, you got me too! ☺ Diane
ReplyDeleteIt's a gorgeous fireplace Barb and I would have never guessed either. BTW, love your Staffordshire Caveliers. I have a pair too AND the real Cavelier.
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting this party. I did a tribute to a special friend and I hope you visit.
Carolyn/N FL
Your fireplace is a beauty! The way you have the mantel all decorated looks great. I love the print above. I can't wait to see the rest of that room. It looks very inviting. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful faux fireplace, Barb! And just think, you don't have to clean up all the ashes and soot!! I love the English look you have achieved in your family room~it is a style I really love. I will have to come back to see the "pub" area!!
ReplyDeleteHave a good week! :-)
xoxo
Jane
The fireplace is beautiful, it really does fool the eye. That mantle is just gorgeous. And I LOVE that landscape, it really is beautiful (and beautifully framed says the picture framers wife lol) Hugs, Kat
ReplyDeleteThe whole wallette is beautiful! I'm envisioning that mantel going through the chunnel. You have such beautiful things from your travels - it certainly was worth all of your efforts. Sally
ReplyDeleteHow cute! I love your faux fireplace and the English look :) A pub! How funny! I would call it that too LOL. I love the topiaries and your little doggy!
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Allison
What a beautiful mantel piece, Barb...just gorgeous!!! I can see why you've brought it from place to place after "driving" it over the Channel!
ReplyDeleteLove your draperies in there, too!
Happy WOYWW!
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Your room, from what I have seen so far just screams England. It is an unmistakable style. Unlike you completely mistakable fireplace. Well done you fooled us all.
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Excellent job of dealing w/ the black hole of a faux mantel!
ReplyDeleteWould have loved to see you "chunneling" w/ that strapped to the roof of your van!
Barb, Love the fluted columns of your fireplace and the beautiful picture above the mantel! You did a gorgeous job with this area of the room. Will we see more? :-) Sue
ReplyDeleteLove,love,love the mantle and the picture and the doggie,OK I love it all, it is beautiful. Hope you are having fun!!! Hugs Kathysue
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful mantle! You sure had me fooled!
ReplyDelete~Michelle
EVening, Barb! Well, now, you've done a mantlefestation! That was my post yesterday. I see your Staffys and that is what my post is about today! Are we related? :) Two wonderful minds are thinking along the same lines - sorta! :)
ReplyDeleteI love your gorgeous fireplace surround and your picture and your mantlefestation! Lovely room!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Wow Barb! It does look real! What a great idea for adding a fireplace in rooms that don't have one! Love it! Hope you're having fun!!!...hugs...Debbie
ReplyDeleteIf any of you know Sandy @Copper and Things let her know she doesn't have her comments enabled so we can't talk to her. There is no email addy either.
ReplyDeleteI love the mantel. The picture above it is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYes you got me on your fireplace but you have given me a ideal on where to put one in my home.
Thanks for sharing
Shirley
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Love the "trick" fireplace. Now, I know, there's no reason to live without a fireplace.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a faux fireplace too! Yours is much prettier than mine was though.
ReplyDeleteThis is looking so similar to one I drug around for years from house to house! I finally gave it back to my parents to sell in their antiques store.....along with other pieces from my grandmother's house. I just got tired of them all, they were oak and VERY heavy! Hubby was tired! LOL! I did the same with the making it "look" like a real fireplace was there. Love those curtains!
ReplyDeleteBarb, I'm sending a little message through your comments to Sandy at Copper n Things. I think her comments are disabled. This is her very first blog post!! Sandy, I hope you see this. :)
ReplyDeleteStacey
Flea venturing in England...I am so jealous!!! :) Beautiful mantel and I love the vingette on top of it! Oh, and I HEART those drapes pictured, too! Such pretty fabrics! ~hugs, Rhonda :)
ReplyDeleteBarb,The mantel is beautiful - sich a rich color. I love the scene above it, too! Linda
ReplyDeleteHad me completely fooled! I love the picture, dogs, books, topiaries - love the little bit of leather chair and draperies too!
ReplyDeleteBarb,
ReplyDeleteI love your wallnette. I had planned on participating today but forgot that I had already posted my family room walls last time. So I didn't have any new photos to show this week. Boo hoo!! I better get better prepared for next time. When is next time?
Kim
Great new word. I can't wait to use it in conversation! I did think that was a real fireplace. That mantle is gorgeous, and your picture is perfect over it. laurie
ReplyDeleteOh I just want to snuggle up under a soft throw with a cup of tea! I love those Staffordshire dogs! I was eyeing a pair at that store I keep telling you we have to visit!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty!!!! :)
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