Fireplace Mantle finished

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Fireplace Mantle finished

Posted: 1/2/2003 7:53:03 AM EDT

Thanks to all those who helped with the mantle suggestions/ideas a few months ago to go over the fireplace in our new house we just built. Thought I'd post a pic now that the Holidays are over and its all cleared back off again. Its a solid piece of Cypress that my father and I cut and shaped. Stained it with a light stain and put on a couple layers of urethane sealer. Turned out great. I was wanting something a tad thinker to be more in proportion to the thickness of the brick, but this was all we could get and were out of time to find anything else. Again, thanks for all the ideas and tips.

[img]http://glen.dodgedakotas.com/john/Living_Room.jpg[/img]

Posted: 1/2/2003 8:08:49 AM EDT

[#1]

It turned out well and looks great !! [:)]

Posted: 1/2/2003 10:58:02 AM EDT

[#2]

Dude, did you get that couch from Rhodes furniture?? I think I have the exact same one.

Posted: 1/2/2003 11:19:42 AM EDT

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Dude, did you get that couch from Rhodes furniture?? I think I have the exact same one.

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Yup, sure did. [:D] Love it too! One of the most comfortable ones I have ever sat on. double recliners on the right end, queen size sleeper on the left, very comfy corner connecter. Its great.

Posted: 1/2/2003 4:28:39 PM EDT

[#4]

HELL YEA! I love that couch. I was going to get a smaller leather one, but for the same money, I could'nt resist. Where in FL are you at?

Posted: 1/2/2003 4:35:23 PM EDT

[#5]

Looks good from what I can see, i.e., you didn't brick over the vents of the factory built fireplace. [:D]

Posted: 1/2/2003 4:40:38 PM EDT

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HELL YEA! I love that couch. I was going to get a smaller leather one, but for the same money, I could'nt resist. Where in FL are you at?

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Jacksonville.

Posted: 1/2/2003 4:44:40 PM EDT

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Looks good from what I can see, i.e., you didn't brick over the vents of the factory built fireplace. [:D]

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Aint that a b*tch. Not what I wanted. I grew up on a REAL fireplace. When we got ready to build, I about flipped at what it was going to cost to do the "real" deal. This one is about the best prefab one there is though. Suprisingly enough, it will put out some serious heat, and is big enough to burn decent sized logs in, and not just twiggs. I can live with it.

Posted: 1/2/2003 4:57:21 PM EDT

[#8]

I think it looks great, I like the way it marries the shape and style of the firplace. it's not overdone or gawdy.

Posted: 1/2/2003 4:59:53 PM EDT

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I think it looks great, I like the way it marries the shape and style of the firplace. it's not overdone or gawdy.

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Thats exactly what I was going for.

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:12:44 PM EDT

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Looks good from what I can see, i.e., you didn't brick over the vents of the factory built fireplace. [:D]

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Aint that a b*tch. Not what I wanted. I grew up on a REAL fireplace. When we got ready to build, I about flipped at what it was going to cost to do the "real" deal. This one is about the best prefab one there is though. Suprisingly enough, it will put out some serious heat, and is big enough to burn decent sized logs in, and not just twiggs. I can live with it.

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I like stoves myself. In fact I heat my house with a soapstone wood stove. Only way to really heat with wood! ...unless you a have Rumford fireplace, but that will only heat the room it's in.

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:17:04 PM EDT

[#11]

Beautiful, Hawkeye! [:)]

Sweep, get to work! [:D]

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:17:58 PM EDT

[#12]

A fireplace in Florida?

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:20:52 PM EDT

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I like stoves myself. In fact I heat my house with a soapstone wood stove. Only way to really heat with wood! ...unless you a have Rumford fireplace, but that will only heat the room it's in.

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Sweep, you're in freakin' [b]Georgia[/b]!! Why don't you just heat it with body heat and a candle???

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:31:54 PM EDT

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Heck yea, a fire place in Florida! It's colder than a witches so and so right now. This afternoon it was in the high 60's, but right now, hovering around 40ish.

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:38:39 PM EDT

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I like stoves myself. In fact I heat my house with a soapstone wood stove. Only way to really heat with wood! ...unless you a have Rumford fireplace, but that will only heat the room it's in.

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Sweep, you're in freakin' [b]Georgia[/b]!! Why don't you just heat it with body heat and a candle???

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Shiiete! It can get colder than a frog's pecker on a frozen pond down here! Haven't you ever made fun of us for not knowing how to drive in snow? [:D] Which by the way isn't snow, it's ice after a day!

Anyway, Hawkeye, glad to see you have a nice cozy fireplace to relax in front of with the wife.

BTW Hawkeye, you think the masonry chimneys that they through together today are high dollar, ya don't want to even know how much it cost to have something like this built:

[img]http://www.rumford.com/images/Pacheco.jpg[/img]

That's a Rumford. The side walls are angled back at a 45 degree angle and radiate much more heat out into the room. Also, the people that build this do it right. They are the only fireplaces and chimneys that I have seen built correctly.

Posted: 1/2/2003 5:47:18 PM EDT

[#16]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice mantle. But, I must know what happened to the hijacked trolley!

Posted: 1/2/2003 6:27:57 PM EDT

[#17]

Sweep, that rocks! Wife wouldnt let me have one. Says I am too much of a pyromaniac. Kinda reminds me of the one in my Grandfathers house. Was done by an old backwoods mason (what else is there in south GA) and was brick from head to toe. A REAL fireplace much like that. You could put some serious wood in it. Had a trap door in the bottom that you opened and swept all the ash into, and then a second door on the outside that you could pull all the ash and coals out of. When I was little, and my Grandfather, my dad, and I would get up at 4:30 in the morning to go hunting. He'd get a big fire going before we ate breakfast, and it'd last near all day. He would load up the fireplace with wood, hose it down with lighter fluid, stand back and toss in a match! God I miss those days.

Posted: 1/2/2003 6:31:24 PM EDT

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A fireplace in Florida?

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Florida is a long state. The weather here in NE FL is very, very different than south or even central FL. The high tomorrow is going to be about 55 with a nice stiff wind. Low Fri night of 30 and a high Sat of 50, not counting wind chill. Frigid, no. Cold enough for a fire? Yes. When it gets cold, I can keep a fire going and the heater hardly ever cuts on at all. Saves us quite a bit of money on the elec bill.

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