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Ideas for what to put on the wall above my fireplace?

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Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 01-Jul-09 09:06:10
Not to everyone's taste....but they are unbreakable.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 30-Jun-09 16:43:29
If you have an open fire and a mirror above the fireplace then its not a good combination. Lots of modern clothing, especially kids clothing sad can catch fire very easily.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 30-Jun-09 16:09:19
Every house I have ever owned over the past 20 years have had mirrors over fireplaces, sunlight streaming in on them etc and nothing bad has ever happened.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 30-Jun-09 16:07:02
? i don't understand about the clothes thing!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 30-Jun-09 16:01:27
Another picture. Mirrors above fireplaces are a bad idea. Getting clothes alight and that kind of thing!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 30-Jun-09 16:00:03
i like a nice big mirror myself, and then ban dh from playing ball anywhere near it!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 30-Jun-09 15:58:25
Yesterday DH was playing with DS's new ball and proceeded to bounce it off the picture above the fireplace, which proceeded to fall off the wall and smash angry. So we now have a blank space above the fireplace (to which DS (20 months) keeps pointing at shouting 'daddy, daddy!' how funny).

Any ideas on how to fill the space? Another picture? Or a mirror? Or something else I've not thought of? Or nothing?
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