Great Places to Shop for a Fireplace Mantel

Finding the perfect fireplace mantel can be quite a challenge. There are several retailers of fireplace mantels and in this article we will review their sites and what they each have to offer. Perhaps the easiest place to shop for fireplace mantels is Lowes Home Improvement stores. Lowes caries a selection of about 280 different styles to select from. In addition you can browse the Lowes.com web site, and if you like something, you can buy the item online and pick it up for free in any Lowes retail store for free. This is an advantage that none of the other online retailers of fireplace mantels can match.

Another great place to shop for mantels is mantelsdirect.com. This web store offers a large variety of fireplace mantels and was reviewed on the television show Good Morning America. Mantels Direct offers a great installment payment plan called easy 3 pay where your purchase will be billed over three equal installments roughly every 30 days. For this service there is no interest charge - so it's a great way to spread out the payment on an expensive mantel without incurring additional interest charges on your credit card.

Another great site is fireplacemantels.com. This site has an advantage over the other two sites in that it allows customers to post reviews of the mantels that they have purchased. In addition to a full line of fireplace mantels this site also offers mantel shelves, fireplace surrounds, and a complete line of fireplace accessories. The site also features a shopping cart system which makes it easy to navigate and to place interesting items in the cart for review later. The site accepts a wide range of payment options including Paypal and Google checkout, and is better business bureau certified.

Another great site to purchase fireplace mantels from is mantelworld.com. This site unfortunately only ships mantels to the continental United States, but if you are in the continental United States it is a site which is well worth checking out. Besides other features of dealing with a site that has such a large selection, Mantel World has just begun a new customer appreciation points program. The way the program works is for every dollar that you spend you will receive appreciation points. These points can then be redeemed for a percentage discount which ranges from 5% on the low end to a 30% discount. Besides offering a full line of mantels for sale, this site is also a repository of mantel information - including a complete section on building codes in the United States and how they affect fireplace mantels. Definitely a great site worth checking out.