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Living Room & Dining Room – Knotty Pine?

Fire Places — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:04:43 +0000

My living room is about 22 x 16 and 3 of the 4 walls have knotty pine. Long wall with front door and large picture window and two small walls. One wall also has brick fireplace (no mantel). The shelf at the fire place is stone or slate? It makes my living room so dark and old looking. I dont want to paint it but to remove all that will take a lot. The stain is rather dark and all walls wood is in good shape except the small wall has knicks in it from a rocker or something.

My one wall in the dining room also has this… None of it goes with what theme or style I would like to have… Dining room is currently baskets and americana colors. the only thing I can see that works with that is the lines in a basket. Living room, I like the Victorian look, antique, whites, washed colors.

What is the best way to brighten it up?

Remodeling stone fireplace?

Fire Places — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:25:20 +0000

We moved into a townhome with one of those 80′s style cobblestone fireplaces. The fireplace is in a corner next to the stairs and the stone surround goes from floor to ceiling. It looks very out of date with our modern furniture. I would like to remodel it but we have a very small budget. Could I do something like paint it white and add a nice mantel or something? I don’t want to mess it up since we will be selling in a couple years.

Electric fireplace?

Fire Places — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:33:19 +0000

We bought a beautiful house that is perfect in every way, except for a very ugly fake fireplace. My house is traditional, but the mantel is light oak. Well, actually, it is just about perfect after I have spent 4 years and a lot of money. My last project is the fireplace, and my budget can’t take a custom-made job. We are total electric so I don’t have the choice of using gas. The electric fireplace w/mantel that I found at Lowe’s is made of fake, cheap looking material. If I go through my decorator and her carpenter, it would be perfect, but would cost ,000 to ,000. I’ve done a lot of searching on the web, but I’m confused. I would appreciate any suggestions. My furniture is cherry, some dark antique pieces, and I have a black baby grand, so I need a fireplace that is not only functional but fits with my decor. Thanks!
There is no indention into the wall. They just put Italian marble (strange) where the fireplace would be. It’s all flat with the wall. I have a hand-painted screen in front of it, but it is still a useless waste of a long wall. The dimplex is beautiful. Thanks for recommending that. Not sold here, but is available within 200 miles. Such nice people here! Some of the categories have such *angry* people. I was prepared to be insulted.

saint Jude left in home for sale?

Fire Places — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:33:21 +0000

okay so this is a question to all the wiser Catholics out there.
I was searching online for a home and saw a really nice one. I have been raised catholic all my life so it came to a surprise to find a picture of the homes fireplace and a statue of saint Jude on the mantel. My husband and I got curious and went to see the home and sure enough the statue of saint Jude is still there. Were puzzled because its a bank owned property and the rest of the house is completely empty, well at least the rooms we were able to see through the homes surrounding windows. We contacted the real estate agent but we haven’t heard back from them. Is there a catholic church reason for not removing the statue?
okay I would get it if family was selling the home but a bank. Why would they put the statue in the home or not remove it?

I have a Plasma Screen mounted above our Fireplace mantel on the brick wall… ?

Fire Places — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:08:59 +0000

I really would like to put the Fireplace to use seeing as though it’s never been used and its a brand new home! However since the TV is above the mantel I was afraid having a fire would be too dangerous to the TV??? Anyone done this before?

Looking to sell marble and wood fireplace mantles, wondering what they're worth. Probably 100+ years old?

Fire Places — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:16:11 +0000

The house that we’re renovating is circa 1850′s. The marble fireplace surrounds a decorative metal forced hot air duct that is no longer connected. The downstairs has a carved oak wooden mantel with mirror.

Wall mounted Plasma TV and the rest of equipment?

Fire Places — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:25:14 +0000

Hi,

I am planning to buy a 42" Panasonic plasma ED monitor and wall mount it over the fireplace. The question that I have is where should/would I place/hook up/mount the rest of the equipment, i.e. DVD player/ Cable Box/ VCR, etc… There is no mantel over the fireplace. So the TV will be mounted right above the fireplace, but I am not sure where how would the rest of the equipment be placed/ hooked up?

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