New fireplace!

Happy wednesday!

We've been in our house for 6 years now and

since we've been here I have longed for a mantle.

The fireplace itself is so pretty but has stone

ledges that just didn't give it a comfy feel.

So this past sunday we got busy and transformed

the fireplace. 

You can see in this picture the ledges. 

At Christmas I would try and create a faux mantle with one of the ledges.  Just didn't cut it.....

And..... here it is! all transformed!

I am LOVING it! 

We started by scoring the ledges with a masonry

scoring tool then taping the ledge with a mallet

and they suprisingly popped right off. 

This is the only ledge that we ran into trouble with.

When we popped this one off it took away some of 

the stone and masonry. 

We patched it up with masonry chalking. 

The mantle piece I ordered from Amazon.

It's a company called "Dogberry", they

have a website, but I was surprised to

find them on Amazon prime days discounted. 

Once the patch job dries you can paint it.

The mantle came with this wood bar that gets

screwed into the stone with a hammer drill.

Then you just mount the wood mantle right 

onto the ledge. 

Using a hammer drill made drilling into the stone so easy.

There were five screws that needed to be drilled. 

They took minutes, that's it.  

And the result is awesome!