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?!

display?!

yes come on tell us what your display is

I wont be able to go to bed till you do and I need to go to bed at a reasonable hour as its geckos 5th birthday tomorrow and she will be up at the crack of dawn

I have:

three small vases containing single stem flowers.
a gap of about 15cm
a component from of an 18th century (old looking metally thing)
a gap of about 25cm
an antique clock (about a third of the way along from the right hand side)
a couple of invitations just before the end, and the letter that needs to be posted tomorrow.

a component from an 18th century WHAT???

sounds fab and I'm loving the off centre clock and the letter that needs posting lol

Clock was on the right side of my mantelpiece. TV takes the middle space :D. Vase with some flower arrangement thing goes on the other.

I got bored after 4 years last week, and moved it to the sideboard. I already have one on the opposite wall to the TV, so put it in the dining room!

But clocks can look fine wherever they are, depending on how big they are!

To be honest, I have a thing about clocks wherever they may be! And when it comes to changing them, it takes me blooomin hours!!!

The things at either end of our mantelpiece actually are pebbly shit and crap words.

But before you have me banned from MN for life, DH and DS collected the pebbles for me on the beach and they are all heart shaped and my best friend gave me the crap words and so I had no choice.

but I have grown quite fond of the pebbles.

hand loom. Sorry, got garbled.

My point is my mantelpiece is veh poncey naice and a little show-offy designy, and it would look all wrong if I had a central clock and arranged things round it. More than wrong: it would look TWEE

Twee? I think not!!

Pistey, you are very right...clock has to be central on a mantlepiece.

My mantle goes like this (from l to r) photo (landscape), photo (portrait), clock, photo (portrait), photo (landscape).

It is all about the symmetry.

I have not slept a wink worrying about all the clocks not in the centre of the mantepiece.

Lovely Rinders, as always you have exquisite taste. And you are right. Clock in the middle!

I love those decorated mantles.

The ones with the clock in the middle?

YABU

(And I spotted your comment about the crafty type )

Clock on wall. Nooooooooo straightlines. Cos it's round. ROUND.

You are all unreasonable. And Wrong.

Because you only mention one clock! If there's space for more, there should be 2. Or 3!

None of which tell the same time (and none of which tell the correct time for their geographical location). But all of which tick - at different volumes and rhythms - and all of which require winding.

I now feel a need to email the builder and ask him to build in a mantel shelf before he finishes the walls, so I can buy a clock for it and put it off to one side.

Definitely. Being placed anywhere other than dead centre would unsettle the clock, and it would probably end up with a nervous tick.

'nervous tick' good one

I still am very glad I dont have a mantle

I'm going to have a wood burning stive and NOTHING above it mwah ha ha h ahaaaaa

so did anyone tell me their thoughts on mirrors above mantles?

and it is mantle isn't it not mantel....

Middle. YADNBU. The thought of it anywhere else on the mantlepiece makes my hands itchy and my eyes twitchy.

it seems this thread is famous. They're discussing it on the wright stuff page on Facebook.
My clock definately goes in the middle.

Pistey! Youm famous

Even though you are of course wrong.

Haven't read the whole thread, but RatherBe - weren't you the MNer who started the entirely unreasonable thread about anally retentive dishwasher loading? And now you have a thread about overly-precious mantlepiece arrangement. I feel a theme coming on.

She's the one. Ridiculous and frankly deluded notion that it should be 'Knives, forks, spoons'

I do believe she thinks she's Anthea Turner.

Ditto re the wright stuff. I follow them On twitter and this is a discussion on their programme tomorrow. Be warned they refer to a mumsnet "saddo". Not nice.