Help Me Pick a New Fireplace Surround!
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Help me pick a color for my fireplace!
Comments (16)I like it too - but, if you are hell bent on painting it - why not get some poster board, put a color on it and tape it up. Leave it up for a week or so and see if you really, really want to paint it. Your surround is very pretty - I like that it's a creamy color w/a glaze. That is a different look. If you do want it to be more elegant/blingy - why not think about putting up a different screen. Maybe a silver color or one that matches your pretty cocktail table. Something w/a mirrored look?...See MoreWhich tile lot do we pick for fireplace surround?
Comments (37)No, it's the one on the right. Different lighting and all that, I guess. I did not take the original photo of the samples. What we got did end up looking more like the very first sample I did see, in person. (Then we ordered, and the lots looked like the two in the photo in the first post.) So maybe the photo they took was a little washed out? Who knows....See MoreMCM Fireplace -- Help me pick a mantel shelf
Comments (13)Question re mahogany: you might want to make sure that the mahogany you use is sustainably sourced...it's gorgeous but it's a major rainforest wood and is being poached, as it were, destroying habitat left and right. You can look for something that is called "FSC certified" if you're in question about the source of the wood. OR you can look on a craigslist for someone selling downed lumber that's been milled locally. I love using that kind of wood. Make sure it's dried sufficiently as well. This might get into the range of *you* having to do the sourcing; there are plenty of aspects of our remodel where we know that a contractor would have stopped *long* before we would have been happy...the truly custom sometimes involves extra *extra* legwork on the owner's part. I look so forward to re-doing our mantel--it will be locally milled walnut, I hope. Have you checked craigslist? You can even start looking in "services" for arborists who might know people who have recently cut down a walnut tree. Then it would have local resonance too, rather than being just another product....See MoreHelp me pick a paint color to tie in the new withe the old
Comments (1)I would stick to a whitelike the cabinets to avoid introducing another element to the space...See Morewags848
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