To think that if you have a clock on the mantlepiece it needs to go in the middle?

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Or am I being anal? My children say so. I don't think I am, but I need support from the MN jury. How could the clock go on one end? That would be wrong.

Right now it goes plant, photo frame, photo frame, CLOCK, photo frame, body sort of sculpture thing, flowers.

But clock in the middle. Yes?!

Norks - can you fart on someone else's thread?

Clock in the middle.
End
Of

Mine has nothing in the middle, but it has something at either end.

But our fireplace is a large, floor to ceiling red brick thing and the mantlepiece bit is a wooden beam with a row of curved bricks on it, so a clock wouldn't fit unless it was really small or really thin.

If a clock did fit I would have it, as Avocado says, one third in from the left edge.

it is ARTY farting, not flatulence, it's ART, RBOTP

I don't own a tape meausre, full length mirror, spirit level or iron!

Not from where I'm standing Norks.......

Norks you say the sin is to go up-down-up-down-up-up-down....
But where is your clock?

and arf at the wooden knitting needles as a variation of twiggy shit!
Now that is arty farty.....

Middle

Clock is on the wall, where it should be. Not cluttering up the mantlepiece

see photo in link with Pom

Thirds and fifths = weird

I'm getting waylaid by the skittles vodka......

so did Pom

I have a rather lovely long candle holdery thing in the middle, the clock all jaunty at the right and some kind of clock lookalike barometer thing of DH's at the other end - so perhaps I'm not too bad after all

Clock is most definitely not centre stage but we're more or less symmetrical.

another mantlepiece holds six wooden manikins in various poses (none farting)

I wish you get a big tick for triangulariness

Stop with the 'jaunty'.

......Calls from the other room "I'm still on the skittles vodka here"

There is no call for jaunty....

and there is no hope IwishIwasmoreorganised

But you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire.

'Jaunty' is very nearly as bad as 'brighten up', 'pretty up' and 'add a pop of colour'.

All meaning 'add some unnecessary object, frill or furbelow - like putting glitter on a turd

Jaunty is just another word for wrong !!

I am proud to say that my symmetry does not just end with the mantelpiece.

It applies to windowsills as well. In fact, it is only right that all my window panes are odd numbers which gives me a middle window in each room in which to display a vase or other objet d'art.

NorthernWreck - now that would be taking jaunty a step too far......

Just remember darlinks: You should have nothing in your home that is not either useful or beautiful. Except a whole load of plastic clanging toys

I don't know why but the thought of objet d'art makes me