the pics.
ok. here thay are..... if I dont slaughter my dialup bandwidth
the first pic "fireplace" was taken on the day i moved in. note the red carpet. it wasnt nailed down and was so old and dry that my feet got chapped walking on it barefoot so out it went.
then next pic "fireplace2copy" was taken after i redid the floor. dosent look like wall paneling does it? the hearth of the fireplace you see is brick. but i chipped it up pretty bad when i dropped a log on it. (the bricks hung off the face about half way so they were pretty succeptable to impact)
pic 3 "newestfireplace" this was taken the other day. the spiralled collumns on either side were the ones that i made and stained. the hearth has also been redone we had some pool coping pieces sitting around work that were destined for trash and they fit quite well. makes cleaning up after the fire ashes easier too because its smooth unlike the bricks with thier deep grout. and yes that is a air conditioner in the firebox. works great! the heat that the back of the a/c makes goes up the chimney, the board that i mounted it to has printouts of a photo that i took of the brick glued to it so that it looks a bit more built in. if you zoom in just above the a/c you can see some other pieces that i made with a celtic pattern and stained and stuck in a bare black area that i didnt like.
the other column caps were from old jobs and made a dandy speaker stand and the one on the right i tend to use to hold kindle during the winter.
if you have any questions or want to know about anything you see dont hesitate to ask.
thats all for now I think my fevers breaking.