How deep should my mantel be?
11 months ago
We have built in shelves on each side of our fireplace. we we’re ha our mantel go all the way across to butt up against the shelves and we’ll run our electric wire through the mantel for the TV. My question is, should the mantel come out as far as the shelves?
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