Friday, September 16, 2011

Fireplace Progress #2

We are taking our time with the fireplace.  That's why this one day project is taking pretty much several weeks.  We are only working on it after the kids go to bed at night.  Neither of us want to corral them in the other room while they both scream and cry because the gate is up and they can't get to their precious "DADDDDDDDYYYYYYY!"

We are breaking this up into 4 Phases.

Phase 1 - paint top portion - COMPLETE!
Phase 2 - paint bottom portion - COMPLETE!
Phase 3 - build mantel - in design phase ;-)
Phase 4 - decorate - in design phase ;-)


End of Day 4
Primer coat finally done!


Day 5
Putting the real paint on (semi-gloss)

End of Day 5
Phase One - COMPLETE!!


End of Day 6
Primer coat on hearth complete!  BTW...I learned just the other day that the shelve thing is called a hearth...who knew?!


End of Day 7
Phase 2 - COMPLETE!
I promise our walls are beige.  There is a light out of frame on the left that makes it look green over there.  And the lamp is not green either.  I don't know what's going on!

I am LOVING it!
I thought the white would be a little shocking...but it's just the opposite.  It just blends into the wall so much better than the original brick.

Here's a little "in progress" Before and After

What do you think??

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You just welcomed it into the next decade....Great job!!!!!!!!!

Cheryl said...

Thanks Heather! That's a lot of exclamation marks...so I think I believe that you really like it :-)