Fireplace Mantles (Marble, Cast Stone, Plaster)

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 term “mantel” refers to the entire decorative surround of the fireplace, not just the shelf part. The facing is the protective frame that surrounds a fireplace opening and is usually marble, brick, tile, or slate. Fireplace mantels evolved from a simple open hearth in the middle of the floor to the wide variety of surrounds we know today.