I wasn’t going to post these since I’m thinking about doing a story on some of my recent projects, but I’m just so charged up about how this one turned out that I have to show off and post it.

This is a picture of my fireplace before I got started. That pile of wood in front of it is a disassembled antique fireplace mantle I got at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for $40.

And this is after…

The miniature fireplace-looking thing used to be a firewood box, but since our fireplace is gas and we didn’t need it for that, I decided to make it into a little dog house. The entire project came in right at $75, and it completely changed the feel of the room.

I love doing this kind of work. Wish I could do it full-time, except I’m the slowest worker imaginable. I still need to do some kind of tile around the fireplace opening, but I’m not sure what. I bought a couple cheap tables ($10) at ReStore to practice on.

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