Fab Fire

As some of you may know, our living room fireplace was quite the eyesore in our otherwise beautiful kitchen/living room combo. We were so fortunate to have had my dad help us so much to get where we were. The only thing we'd been undecided about was the fireplace so it got put on the back burner. It's ugliness bothered the heck out of me for quite some time. We decided to hire our friend to do the make-over for us (my dad is busy doing my Aunt's condo at the moment) so they banged it out last week!

Above the fireplace was a mirror covered window. We didn't fill the window in from the outside; just took the mirror off, filled the inside "hole", and mounted the TV up there (with all the electrical running through the wall). We took out the fug gold fireplace insert, cleaned everything out and tiled over the brick. We ran our speaker wiring around the base of the hearth, under the quarter round and lastly, mounted the mantle that was custom stained to match our furniture. I couldn't believe how well it all turned out. Yay!!

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