HipHip Hooray!!!

We did it! We have successfully had a fire in our new wood buring stove and it was good and warm... at least in that part of the house. :) It took a while, but that is because we are new at this fixer upper stuff, but we did good. All the kudos though, should go to Eric and his dad, since they are the ones that did the amazing job. I did help paint at the end, but nothing major. Enjoy the beginning, during and ending pictures. It is such a massive improvement to this house. :)

This thing was such a death trap, we had to blockade it so that Isabelle wouldn't get anywhere near it.

We took the old "fireplace" (if you can all it that) to the dump... just over 600 pounds of uselessness.

Drywalling is getting easier with every room that we do...

Once the drywall was done and the platform was built, it was time to cut the tile to place on the platform (hearth).

Tile Done, Time to Grout.

Isabelle loved to 'help' and with grouting that was easy... just make a big mess.

Next we painted... The color is way prettier then it is captured in the photos. The contrasting color on the other walls will be a very very soft gold.

We were now ready to install.

We did not do the actuall install ourselves... that would be nuts. We had people do it for us. First they took out all the existing pipes and the top of the chimney out and off. That is the sky up there... funny, it was raining that day.

It's installed... but still so much more to do.... finishing painting, two new types of floor molding and of course, fencing.

Done, at last. Now there was just one thing left to do....

... Our first fire. We were so snug and warm. Bring on the winter.