The Faux Fireplace
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 am . Posted in Home Decor .Plan A: Build a fireplace. We didn’t build a fireplace which I originally wanted to. My dad and Tyler convinced me it was going to take forever and a lot of money especially when we didn’t have all the tools we really needed. So there went my plan.
Plan B: Craigslist. After only a few minutes of searching, I immediately found one I fell in love with. We went over to the owner’s house and purchased it from him. We felt bad for the guy that lived across the street – he was supposedly having a garage sale and had been sitting outside for a while hoping people would come by and no one did. I’m sure he didn’t enjoy seeing his neighbor sell a fireplace in less than 5 minutes.
The fireplace was dirty & almost a yellowish color. I swear I thought I took a “before” picture and unfortunately I didn’t… so there’s a picture of what it looks like after we sanded it.
We had paint from a previous project – Behr Premium with Paint & Primer in one. The longest part of the process was hot gluing the marbles on. Before we even did that we placed the marbles on first to see how many we needed for each side and to make sure they were even. Poor Tyler, I accidentally touched his finger with the hot glue gun. Then at the end, I did it to myself! Hot gluing can be messy & frustrating but that didn’t matter anymore after we were finished.
We only spent $100 on this project and that was spent on the fireplace and marbles from Michael’s. We’re in love with it! We’re thinking about getting wood and painting it the same color then put it on to add more thickness to the top. I’m already excited to hang my Christmas stockings up and now Santa Claus can come and leave us presents. It sucks we don’t have room for our Christmas tree in this area. Enough with the Christmas talk. We’re now satisfied with our faux fireplace and fire pit in our backyard that we finally used recently and I absolutely love the smell of burning wood!
Oh wow! That looks really good!