Plan B: Exposing the Brick!
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Kammy's Korner
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We were in the middle of a major renovation - tearing down walls, and taking off old paneling when we came upon the backside of the chimney. Just one more thing hidiing behind all those layers we hadn't anitcipated on!
My Dad, who was helping, had the brilliant idea of pulling off more of the boards to expose all of the chimney and make it a main focal point in the room. He said it give us a downtown city bistro flavor! This is all coming from an old farm boy retired from John Deere, mind you! Who knew he had some interior designing savvy!
Here's the sight that at first made us go "Ohhhh crap, what are we going to do about this?!".... Dad cemented in the hole and then realizing there was much more brick to the right, came up with his awesome plan to cover up the hole he just cemented by repositioning the slat boards over it and exposing the brick to the right of it. Did you follow all that? :)
We started pulling off boards until we had a nice 30 inch wide opening to the brick. Sorry I don't have pictures of those steps. Dad framed it all in with boards we had on hand to finish it off.
I had an old rustic wood window that happened to fit inside the opening just perfect, so I hung it by little chains so it wasn't up against the brick. I LOVE the rustic pizzazz this adds to our newly remodeled sunroom!
And believe it or not, this little brick wall part of the project didn't cost us a dime! Visit my blog for lots more pictures!
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Published October 4th, 2015 5:24 PM
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Kathy Bitzan on Oct 28, 2015Just goes to show never know will be found behind a wood wall. great find.
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Jean on Oct 29, 2015Too bad the chimney wasn't able to be used! We moved into our 1870 farm house, pulled paneling off the kitchen wall and found a chimney. We hoped to have at least a wood stove in there but no joy! The thing had crumbled at the second floor and would have cost too much to repair. Still hope someday to add a fireplace (with chimney) back to this old place - it would bring back much of it's character. Some places just cry out for that wood-burning apparatus! What you ended up with looks good though. Keep that father-in-law!!
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