RUSTIC LOG AND TIMBER MANTELS
438 Balsam Road,Crystal Falls, MI. 49920| Phone/Fax: 906-822-0112

ANTIQUE FIREPLACE MANTEL DESIGNS FROM BEST OF NATURE

From the mid 1800’s into the early 1900’s,many nationalities of homesteaders had to adapt to growing families and farms. Additional buildings were needed for grain storage, animal barns, and summer kitchens.

As there was no electricity, all labor had to be accomplished with hand tools. More history can be seen here.

Virgin trees were felled with 1-2 man hand saws. Hand held tools like adzes, broadaxes and drawknives were used, along with extreme physical labor to square the trees into hewn timber beams for the structural frames.

These buildings were completely finished with wood - including the floor boards, roof structure, and even down to the wooden pegs used to hold the structural cross ties and diagonal timbers together.

A few of these old farms and buildings remain. They accent the broad sky and the rolling land. Many are meticulous works of art. Each one has its own character, artistic statement, and many stories to share.

-How Best of Nature recreates Antique Wood Fireplace mantels-

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Hewn Timber Mantel Beam (right click to view larger)

Rustic Wood Timber Mantel Shelf

Timber beam 1900 era-how notches and pegs come to exist in the Best of Nature Mantels.

An installed hewn mantel

Antique Hewn mantel with open notch

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