We started with the Fireplace but ended up on the Ceiling
This client asked me to come and take a look at a job. They had a wonderful tudor house right on the water. They showed me a fireplace that they had bought up in New Hampshire and asked me if I could trim out the inside with some carved ornament. As I was wandering through the renovation they were doing I notice that they were constructing some new beams in the ceiling in a room. It is typical tudor design style. I suggest two things, one was I thought that it was not advantagous to add ornament to the interior of the fireplace because wood carving tends to work better as a crowning effect. Secondly, I suggested that we take some of the carving motifs that were already on the mantel and add them to the ceiling panels on the dropped beams. The results would tie together the renovation design and the salvaged carved oak mantel. In the end, it looked like the mantel was custom made for the house in part because it now matched the ornamental carvings on the ceiling beams in the adjoining room.
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