The vintage corbels are ready for installation now that the mantel and surround are secured into place.
NOTE: These corbels are purely ornamental in our fireplace design. They are not holding any weight of the mantel since we designed a “floating” mantel. Again you can see how we did this in the previous post.
To install the vintage corbels, we applied a liberal amount of wood glue to the back of each corbel, centered each on the sides of the surround and secured into place using 2″ brads and the pneumatic brad nailer.
Toward the bottom of the vintage corbels where the wood was a bit thinner we were able to drive the brads directly into the front of the corbel into the surround.
As it gets thicker toward the top of the corbels, we angled the brad nailer from the side and drove brads into the corbels and down into the surround.
Again because these vintage corbels are purely for aesthetics, the amount of wood glue and brads we used will keep these from going anywhere! These things are solid and sturdy!
What lovely ideas you have ladies. I’m in a rental house. Do you have ideas for a rental? Not allowed to change things here. We sold our home and moved to the country and we love it. Appreciate any extra ideas.
Thanks Kim! More ideas using corbels? Yes! You can use them in so many different ways! You could use them to hold up a shelf, use them as bookends. They would also be fun just hanging on the wall with a candle on them etc. Hope this helps.