Right this moment’s drama centered around the truth the the beautiful corbels that I purchased to go together with the mantle are too thick…..they stick out previous the entrance of the mantle. We really constructed cabinets all the way in which to the ground flanking the fireside which house the electronics and the fireplace was also brought to the ground with a slab of stone sunk into the hardwood to lower it. We did this so we could construct the mantel low sufficient to place the flat screen above it. Unfortunately I don’t have any footage that show that detail, wish I did!

Through the 60’s and 70’s, massive heavy brick or stone fireplaces, mantels, and hearth were typically used in décor but at the moment are out of vogue, so homeowners could search for a strategy to replace the look however maintain their functional fire.

In case you have a fire manufactured from stone that’s not even and flat, your renovation will likely be best executed by either chiseling all of the rock out and preparing your floor from the bottom wall behind it, or by creating a body that goes around the stone that you can then connect …