On Saturday,
the possibility of a controlled demolition of the funky dining room fireplace was discussed as part of the consideration for installing a wood burner ........ well, leave the house for 6 hours on a rainy day and you don't know what you'll come home to find. Sadly(!), we have no
before pictures since "we" didn't realize that a project would spontaneously break out! The lovely gold vein mirror tile glued to the masonite over the cheesy mantel was the first to go ..... :)
We had hoped that the old cooking fireplace would be stone, since it has a stone foundation in the basement, but it turned out to be brick. It was hidden under that ubiquitous long, narrow, & shiny red brick that was used to modernize old fireplaces & kitchens in the 50's & 60's.
So how's this for a project?!? The old stove pipe opening on the top has been filled in and so have the warming ovens on the lower left .......
We had hoped that the old cooking fireplace would be stone, since it has a stone foundation in the basement, but it turned out to be brick. It was hidden under that ubiquitous long, narrow, & shiny red brick that was used to modernize old fireplaces & kitchens in the 50's & 60's.
So how's this for a project?!? The old stove pipe opening on the top has been filled in and so have the warming ovens on the lower left .......
So, what are you going to do with the fireplace? I see a lot of potential...
ReplyDeleteWoodburner insert with "cooktop", not a flush mount insert ... if you're going to use it in a power outage, might as well be able to cook on it & have a humidifier pot on there too. Put on false cast/wrought iron warming oven doors to cover that mess & probably a large mirror to cover the patch & fill on top.
ReplyDeleteYou were the biggest fan of the gold vein mirror tile and are probably sad to see it go!
Bogus, I didn't like the gold vein mirror tile!
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