Sage advice from a seasoned carpenter. In the finish carpentry world, fireplace mantels are often the aesthetic showpiece of a room. People use mantels to display family photos, treasured artworks, ...

Four score and seven years ago, give or take, I bought an old fireplace mantel on a selling wall with big dreams of incorporating it into our living room decor. Not, like, in a “lean-it-against-a-wall ...