What's hanging over your fireplace?

At the moment I have a small picture. I should have a large overmantle mirror, but since I moved into my new house last year, the mirror has been lying behind my sofa. This probaly relates to your last post. I need to everything myself, but the mirror is too darn heavy. However, now that you have reminded me...

We don't have a fireplace in this house. In the old apartment, we just set fancier things on the mantle. The wall behind it was all brick and was fancy enough on its own. My inlaws have a gas fireplace. It is more for looks and if the electricity goes out, they have the living room which will still be heated by the fireplace. They do have an antique mirror hanging over it. But they also have no reason to lean over into the fire because it isn't heated by wood. They use the remote to turn it on and off and it has a blower to blow the air out.

We have pictures of the kids hanging over the fireplace. I love being able to use that space for displaying wonderful photograhs of my sweet babies.

We have a very large painting of a stream with running water. You can plug it in and actually hear the water and it lights up. It's interesting to see amd hear.

Well when I was living in the country side due to the cold we had a fireplace and we had pictures above the fireplace, it lovely with the family photo's there.

I've never lived anywhere with a fireplace, but if I had one, I would probable hang framed photos over it.

I have a big Dolphin Clock hanging over mine which my Daughter bought me last year and if I move in 2 weeks it will go over the Fireplace there to lol I love it as it is a beautiful Clock

i don't have a fireplace. though eventually i would love to have a house with one in because my parents have a house with one. now they actually have a fireplace with a mantel and my mom has a bunch of differnt antiques on the mantel.

We have a gas fireplace that has built-in book shelves to the ceiling on either side. In between is a mirror. Because the mantle is so high, and the gas fireplace sticks out, no one actually uses the mirror to look at themselves, unless they back up to the other side of the room. A nice painting would be ideal if you can afford one big enough.

3 photos in frames. The one in the middle is 8x10, on the sides are 4x6s. My son's picture is in the middle. On the left is my husband and son on Halloween and on the right is me and my son at the pumpkin patch. We also have 2 candles on the corners of the mantle.

I don't like anything over fireplaces, I have a sculpture on my fire place which is quite high so there's no room for anything else, Thankfully as my Partner wanted a mirror (must be an Irish thing, mirrors over fire places?)

Hanging a plasma tv over fire place is a good idea and it is too dangerous too cause it is a bit costly material to keep it their and so u can hang the painting over there so that it ll look good and music system beside u so that hearing to the music and taking the heat from the fire place ll b the good idea.

I've got an antique mirror above my fireplace. . . Put some picture-frames and precious collectables up on the mantel, and you're all set to enjoy those WARM MEMORIES. . . when ever your by your fireplace!

Nothing, 'cause it get so warm I don't think many things would survive :-)

our fireplace is not real. it`s an electric one. I have a big painting hanging above it of a beach scene. actually I like the idea of hanging a mirror above it. I think it would look nice.

Wow, I never thought about that with the mirror idea. Our fireplace really isn't working, anyway, so that wouldn't matter. We have a mantle over our fireplace that is filled with extra hard drives (I know, lol, we have like four just for this computer alone because we just keep filling them up, and the computer is right next to the mantle *laugh*) and there are also some old books up there. Above that is a landscape painting that looks very old. It has a road and some treet with a small fence and two people walking towrads a house. It's a nice painting, but I have no idea where my family got it. We've probably had some of our old paintings since when their parents lived here before we did.

Well, at the moment I don't have one. I live in a apartment, but before we downsized we had a loveley house with a big fireplace and I had a Picture of a church hanging over it, a mantel clock, 2 candle sticks and 2 pictures of our family. I loved the set up, and no noone every got burned looking at it. I would change it up a little each season, but the fundamentls were there. Ahh, I miss that house, I think I am going to pull out those pictures and take a gander in to memory lane.

A nice watercolor of a country home hangs over our fireplace, which isn't used all that often. Prior to that we had a black and white poster of a couple kissing outside a hotel in Paris. I can't imagine that too many people would be so enamored with their own reflection that they would toast themselves to get a closer look. I'd be more concerned about ambient heat and possible damage to any electronics.

We are about to hang 2 pieces of 8 ft tin above our fireplace then hang a canvas on top of that. Leave about 7 inches or so on each side of tin to see the wall.

It depends on how your fireplace is set up. If you have converted your wood burning fireplace from an open hearth to an enclosed system that keeps heat in in winter (as opposed to up and out the flue), then its safe to put any thing over the fireplace. Doug http://wood-burning-fireplace-inserts.com