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Someone Else’s House: Bungalow Fireplace Gets Creative Additions
Yesterday I showed you this before and after picture of the vintage bungalow we’ve been slowly touring…
Today, I’ll finish this fireplace area with a few very creative additions. click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House: Drastically Change a Vintage Fireplace with Paint and a Little Bit of Fabric
Can you believe it? The same fireplace in in both these pictures, and no structural changes were made… just a little bit of paint and fabric… and elbow grease.
Yes, this is what they started out with: click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: A Fireplace with a Few Confessions…
In the family room at ‘Our House’ I recently installed a fireplace and brick chimney chase all by myself!
You maybe noticed it in this picture I showed you a little bit ago when I told you how I turned these plantation shutters I found on Craigslist into a giant folding screen behind the sectional.
Well, there on the right is the brick chimney and fireplace I installed, all totally on my own.
Our House: Easter Mantel
I wasn’t going to decorate the mantel this year for Easter… I had just updated it a little bit for Spring/Summer, although I don’t know what inspired me, certainly not the weather…
We’ve had so, so, so much snow this winter… the ground has been buried under feet of the stuff for months, and if I didn’t have as many years of life experience concerning winters in NW Wisconsin, I may doubt that Spring will ever come. But I know from history, that spring eventually will win out and arrive… right?
I had finished some Easter decorating with fun DIY projects this year, but that is all for the dining room… and I guess I felt that we needed a little bit of Easter décor in the great room too.
So here’s what I came up with: click here to read the rest of the story…
Why I Think Quadra-Fire Pellet Stoves Are Awesome!
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of QuadraFire for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
First, I want to encourage you to comment below telling us why you like Quadra-Fire and one of you will be selected to win a Quadra-Fire notebook! (deadline: Feb. 24, 2013)
I shared with you a few weeks ago that I’m a big fan of wood heat. At ‘Our House‘ we have an outdoor wood burner, and it easily heats our house.
We own an antique house in town though, that we are hoping to call our home one day, but being in town, an outdoor wood burner would not be allowed. There is a old, inefficient open fireplace in that home that we hope to install a more efficient stove of some sort in. Learning about the QuadraFire Pellet Stoves has me very intrigued to say the least.
In case you missed it last time, here’s a picture of the way the fireplace is in this antique house now:
Harman Pellet Stoves with a Fun Giveaway!
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Harman Stoves for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
Last night I was running errands from the truck to the stores, then another, stop for dinner, then another store, and it was cold out! On top of the cold, I was tired, I got to the point where I just couldn’t get warm, and all I could think of was how much I wished I was home in my cozy house, where I knew I would be warm.
Fortunately for us, we don’t have to be super careful with keeping the thermostat at a moderate temperature to conserve the LP gas usage… Why? Because we heat our entire house, all 4600 square feet of it, with a read more
Mantels: The 'Hearth' of the Home
Oh boy, kinda corny, huh? Oh well. But certainly the mantel and hearth do have a ‘heart of the home’ feeling. Typically, they’re the focal point of the main room in the house. That’s why we love to decorate them.
This was how I decorated the mantel in the living room of ‘Our House’ for the summer… So for the fall, I changed it around just a little bit and now it totally has a warm fall feel, take a look: Read On…
Lovin' this Valentine's Day Fireplace Mantel
Our friend, Beth from one of my favorite blogs Home Stories A 2 Z announced she’s hosting a link party featuring Valentine’s Day mantels. She has no idea how perfect that timing was for me. You see I really wanted to post a dining tablescape for Valentine’s Day, but due to the huge Read on…
Angels on High Christmas Mantle
We moved into this house 15 years ago, and every Christmas since our mantle has been Read on…
