Update an Outdated Brick Fireplace
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Creative Me Inspired You
(IC: blogger)
We bought our house looking to renovate it. It was stuck pretty much in the 50′s and 60′s from when it was built. There is a good foundation. It has sturdy features including a new roof, plumbing, and furnace. It also has a beautiful view, over the back fence, of a large field with miles of trees that give us beauty year ’round. There are big 80-year-old maples in the front yard. They are so big even two or three of us together cannot fit our arms around the trees, which give us beautiful, cool shade in the summer. Inside, there was a lot of work that needed to be done, but we figured it would take time and hard work, a little sweat equity that we were willing to put in.
We still have a long way to go until the house is ‘finished’. In the mean time, I am doing little things here and there. Sometimes, those little things turn into quite the project.
This is a photo from our house viewing, we saw so many houses, the ones I liked best, I took photos of so I could consider them more.
In the past few years, we have lightened the beams and refreshed the white ceiling. Added in new flooring.
We’d added a wood stove to the fireplace, and I painted the mantle a satin black. We changed some rooms around and brought in our furniture from the office.
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Published August 15th, 2014 6:00 AM
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Marion Nesbitt on Aug 16, 2014Looks great - especially getting rid of the panelling. To me, it only suits the library in an old Engish manor or a French chateau.
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Michele Eures on Aug 16, 2014Stunning! Such a good idea!
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