Mantels or Chimney-Pieces 
and some show 
real mission or 
craftsman effects. 
1 ' h e s e mantels 
ready to set in 
place, which can 
be bought for a 
o 
reasonable sum, are 
found particu¬ 
larly suitable to 
houses of these 
types as well as to 
other of the ver¬ 
nacular houses. 
Especially are 
these mantels suit¬ 
ed to the hall, liv¬ 
ing-room and den. 
Some manufac¬ 
turers of mantels 
will submit de¬ 
signs made up 
for special plans. 
Mantels so or¬ 
dered will com¬ 
plete the archi- 
tectural detail of a 
room and are rea¬ 
sonable in price. 
In the estimates for such mantels, tiles may or may 
not he included. Where the mantels are to be 
installed in places where there are no skilled work¬ 
men, slabbed facings should be used. That is, 
facings are made of the regular tile set in iron 
frames and arranged m three pieces so that any 
ordinary workman 
can put them in 
place. 
Where it is de¬ 
sired to bring into 
prominence the 
decorative scheme 
as evinced by the 
wall frieze about 
the room, a mantel 
of tile after the 
style of the one 
shown in the pic¬ 
ture may be effec¬ 
tively introduced. 
These decorative 
tiles could be used 
singly or in borders 
in connection with 
the same make of 
tile in plain soft col¬ 
ors. The decorative 
tile comes in very 
excellent designs 
and beautiful 
colors. All of 
these tiles show the 
mat or dull glazed 
finish. A point 
in regard to all-faience mantels, is that the corners 
turning into the fire-box proper and the sides where 
the returns into the wall occurs, show rounded edges 
known as “ Bull Nose. ” These edges being glazed, 
there is no occasion for metal fireframe or finish¬ 
ing bands of any sort. In mantels of this kind such 
MANTEL FACING, EXQUISITE IN COLOR AND DESIGN 
Inches high 
five feet wficle. Tile opening 
forty-two inches square 
