FIREPLACES AGAIN

Remember a while back when I posted about fireplaces?

If not, click here to read about it: FIREPLACES

Well that was at the end of last year when we first started building the house.

I just got around to decorating our fireplace for the first time.

In fact I got into a decorating mood last week and started digging around in the unpacked

boxes sitting in our garage waiting to be sorted through.

I always say shop around your house before you go out and spend money. Move things around.

I did go out and buy 2 new items to use on top of my entertainment center.

(You'll see that in my next post)

That got me going. I put those 2 items on the entertainment center and started going around the house to see what else I could use in the living room and I also went through boxes of accessories that I've collected throughout the years.

It works for me. It makes the house look more like home.

This is when we first put up the plywood walls. This is where the fireplace will go.

At this stage, sheetrock has been installed and floated. Painters have applied first coat of paint (after weeks of deciding on paint colors) as I shared with you in this post:

PICKING PAINT COLORS.

The brick layers have begun our fireplace. I got the idea for the shape in a magazine.

When you build a house, it will not be perfect.

There will be things you wish you could change.

But you prepare yourself for that before going into it, you try to think of everything beforehand to prevent those things from happening (which I thought I did), but there is bound to be some things that you could not foresee.

For example, the opening in the fireplace. When I walked in at this point I wanted to cry. The opening looked so small compared to the rest of the fireplace.

But there was nothing we could do unless we wanted them to tear it down and that was not going to happen. So I shed a few tears and let it go. You work with what you have.

So up went the crown molding and the reclaimed wood mantle. It was starting to look better. My eyes were not drawn to the tiny hole but the beautiful wood.

That's one thing I've learned about decorating.

Almost always, you will not get exactly the look you are going for.

Like in a magazine or in someone else's home.

But, you can create the illusion of what you are going for.

Don't get that?

If's ok.

That's just me being a little dramatic.

This is the fireplace today.

I'm looking for a screen to go in front of the "hole". I'll know it when I see it.

Now is this what it will look like the next time you see it? I don't know. When I start decorating another room I may have to go shopping on the fireplace mantle.