Andrea Nelson | Home Decor | Interior Decorating on Instagram: "How to DIY our fireplace mantle ⤵️ I get messages from people requesting the link to our mantle regularly. It’s custom built by professional finish carpenters, but I’m going to give you all the info to DIY. We had the BEST finish carpenters in all the land @awesometrimwork working on our home, and they custom built our mantle for a look we loved and so that we could match it to the wood beam and kitchenette wood stain we put in down there. So… I reached out to thfor the details, and here’s what they said: “We built the mantle using Clear Alder. It’s a pretty simple but sleek design. We ordered a 6” cove crown moulding from a local mill and ran that on the inside of our outer box. Then added a cleat for the inside of the
How to Build a Wood Mantel DIY
My mother in law recently decided to update her living room and trusted Nate and I to give her fireplace a little face lift. In order to achieve the look she wanted, we built her a new wood mantel! Before After painting First, I painted her fire place Valspar bistro white in an eggshell finish. Essentially, we just wrapped her existing mantel top with wood.For the top piece we used a 1x12. We measured and cut that to size, then nailed it into the existing mantel top using 1 1/2” b…