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Decorate Your Fireplace for the Holidays
If you’re like most people, you don’t think about getting your house ready
for the holidays until November at the earliest. But if you want to remodel a
living room or den before family and friends come to visit, you might want to
get a jump on any big projects before the end-of-year rush.
Christmas and Thanksgiving are all about gathering your family and loved ones
together. What better place to gather than around a newly remodeled fireplace?
It’s the natural backdrop for family photos, and—of course—a must for hanging
stockings.
Consider the following improvements to your fireplace:
• Replace the mantel. This might sound like a monumental task, but you can
get custom-crafted hardwood mantels delivered to your door,
ready to install. Choose a factory finish that matches your room, or try your
hand at staining an unfinished mantel.
• Get new accessories. Another
option is replacing those old, filthy fireplace screens, doors, and tools with
new accessories. Does
your fireplace poker look like it came from a thrift store? Does your old screen
leave your fingers black every time you touch it? Choose new fireplace
accessories to match your décor.
• Get creative with your Christmas
cards. Tired of lining up Christmas cards from friends and family? Why not hang your
Christmas cards from garlands or tinsel draped across the
mantel.
• Attach stockings with hangars. Don’t want to hammer nails into
your nice hardwood mantel? Thinking twice about drilling holes in the brick? These
fireplace brick clips are a useful way to hang stockings from the fireplace
without causing any damage.
• Digital picture frames. A digital photo
frame lets you show off your digital pictures from past holidays right on
your mantel. Some frames allow you to create a customized slideshow. So get
those photos off your computer and on display!
• Upgrade your gas logs.
If you have a gas fireplace, chances are good that you’ve got an old, boring,
unconvincing ceramic log to “simulate” firewood. Nowadays you can get designer ceramic and concrete log sets that look very
much like the real thing.
• Don’t be intimidated by ugly brick. Painting
old brick fireplaces is increasingly popular as an alternative to expensive
renovation and replacement. Best of all, you can do it yourself in just a few
hours! If you want to build a cozy fire on Christmas Eve in your working
fireplace, be sure to choose a high-temperature paint. For best results, ask
your hardware store clerk or choose an all-in-one fireplace paint kit.
If you’ve got an ugly fireplace that you’re tired of seeing year after year
in your Christmas photos, why not give yourself (and Santa) an early Christmas
present. Start thinking now about updating your fireplace.
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