Ornamental Steel

About Ornamental Steel

If you think that iron and steel are only sold and manufactured in their bar and tube forms, you are probably not familiar with ornamental steel. The ornamental types of steel are produced in various styles and designs and are used for a range of construction, home improvement, and decorative purposes.

What are ornamental steels and how they are produced?

As their name suggests, ornamental iron and steels are pieces of metal used as decorative elements of most structures and items made out of metal. Instead of the regular bar, rounded bar, flat bar, or tube shape, these steel pieces are shaped in almost any form. If you are to check out the product inventory of Wasatch Steel Salt Lake City, you’ll find these decorative steels resembling the shape of pickets, leaves, flowers, rings or circles, spears, crowns, butterfly, etc.

These decorative metals have long been used in construction and craft building several centuries ago. But the original material and process of producing them is different and more complex than today. Before steel came into existence, iron is used to create ornamental steel through casting or manual shaping and pounding. Today, the tougher yet lighter steel is used. And instead of manually casting and shaping steel into form, there are now machines that can cut, form, and cast steel into the consumer’s desired shape.

The uses of these decorative steels

As mentioned above, these especially formed steel are used for a multitude of purposes including but not limited to the following:

Gate or fence construction. If you are planning to build a metal gate or fence, it won’t have any appeal or beauty if you are merely welding out ordinary steel. To add beauty to the an ordinary metal fence, it can be redesigned and incorporate the decorative pickets, snap on, curved or rounded rails, etc. The most common decorative steel used in fencing are the twisted and spear-tipped pickets. Gates on the other hand are usually adorned with floral and leaf-like metals.

Window grills decoration. Aside from their popular fence application, you could also see ornamental steel used to decorate or improve the appearance of window grills. Similar to the concept of using these decorative metals in gates, fences, and doors, several window styles especially those with Mediterranean, European, and Asian inspirations have also been using metal ornaments as well.

Stair rails and handles. Instead of wood, you can alternately use decorative metal rails and handles for your stairs or staircase. Wasatch Steel Salt Lake City offers a wide range of classy and elegant rails or handles fit for almost all styles of house or hotel stairs. Using metal instead of wood or concrete would also reduce that stressful weight carried by the stair itself.

 

Metal furniture accent. Metal furniture such as bed, sofa, or chair can be hardly seen nowadays. They are now limited to the antique furniture and other items. But a lot of people are still interested and are fond of metal furniture especially those adorned with intricately designed ornamental steel.

 

Metal sheet letterings. Decorative steel is not only limited to the figure-shaped pieces, it also includes metal stamping and cutouts or letterings. Metal letters are widely used by businesses for signage.