House and Garden 
A LIVING-ROOM MANTEL 
A DINING-ROOM MANTEL 
AN EXCELLENT COLONIAL DESIGN FOR MANTEL 
The col umns are fluted and have capitals of 
the Ionic order. The height and width are the 
same—five feet. The tile opening is forty-two 
inches wide and thirty-nine inches high. 
treatment produces a better effect as it prevents 
bringing together two materials not necessarily 
related and which are not needed for a complete 
finish. The shelf' of the mantel is frecjuently of 
wood like the standing woodwork of the room. 
The irregularity and variation in color and texture 
which the mat glazed tile shows, constitutes one of 
the greatest charms of the material. In a very attrac¬ 
tive nursery where the goose girl paper has been 
used for the upper third of the wall, the tile in the fire¬ 
place shows a design which completes the picture. 
As there is no single detail of the house or its finish¬ 
ing which adds so much to its completed beauty as a 
suitable, dignified and well proportioned mantel, 
it is reassuring to the man of moder¬ 
ate means who is about to build, to 
know that he can have mantels, and 
good mantels, at a cost proportionately 
less than any other decorative feature of 
the house. 
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TILES 
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NURSERY MANTEL 
SEVERAL COLORS 
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