My latest project

A NEW FIREPLACE and PELLET STOVE

It is becoming a tradition that when Jeremy leaves for hunting trips, I do a "project" around the house. In the past i've buit entire storage shelving units in the garage, painted bathrooms and this time it was remodeling our outdated fireplace. I was going to go at it alone, but when I was asking my dad some questions, he simply said "when is Jeremy going hunting?" and offered to come and help-which I was SOOOO glad he did. There was no way I was lifting that old pellet stove out by myself, plus I wasn't feeling very good, so Dad did the majority of the work with tiling too. Maybe before I was pregnant I could have done it alone, but not now. We brainstormed and found a way to make it free standing. Oh and by the way, we ended up buying a whole new stove while in the process.. Between the tax rebate, city rebate and selling ours, this one is a bargain! So here are the before and after photos. I am loving the new look, I hope Jeremy will too!! :-)

BEFORE: The brick was stained with soot and starting to fall apart...... plus it was big and bulky.

AFTER: This is the same tile we will be using in the kitchen, laundry, bathroom and entrance this winter when we re-do our floors. We can actually walk in our front door without walking around a giant fireplace!! The whole thing only sticks out 9" as opposed to 18" before!