Unlike, the easy pillows and rug updates, the fireplace is definitely going to be a bigger project. Here's our living room and fireplace today. It still needs a ton of work, but it's come quite a long way from when we bought it!
I know everything looks a little off-center/odd around the fireplace, but that should hopefully be evened out and cozy-ed up as we get things in place and in order!
This is what the living room and fireplace looked like when we had our home inspection.
The boards were (are?) a rough cedar, that I sanded down with the belt sander (not fun), primed with shellac-based primer, then painted in these fun stripes for the short term (inspired by a picture I'd seen in Real Simple).
Excuse the lawn chair. :) We didn't have furniture yet.
The current goal is to turn it into more of a traditional fireplace, with drywall above, a proper tiled surround and mantel (also bringing it up to code by surrounding it with non-flammables like it's supposed to be!), and tone down that blinding gold trim. I'll have to take down those boards (I'm sort of dreading what's underneath them!) before I start the mantel and tile work. But it will be worth it. And hopefully it will look like this:
And maybe I'll put some artwork like Lisa Congdon's Summer Birches above it:
And those red chairs have to be recovered. I'm thinking something stripey that will give me a fun pop of color. Maybe like this Side-Step Stripe by Waverly?
from here
I also love these chairs!
Oooh, and going back to yesterday's post, here's another gorgeous rug, this time from Horchow. But a Pinterest friend said she saw one like it at HomeGoods! I might be heading out there later this week!
image from here
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