Now that my summer is over, it's time to start thinking about the colder weather moving in. My favorite room in my house is my Family Room / Home Theater. Problem is, it has 3 exterior walls, a non-working fireplace and a large OLD sliding glass door with no insulating properties to speak of. It gets chilly in there. It would be great to replace the fireplace with a gas insert and use it as a zone of heat. I also HATE the way my fireplace looks.
It's very plain, just look:

After playing around in photoshop for an hour or so, and digging out some pictures of fireplaces, fireplace surrounds and bookshelves, i mocked up a picture of what I'm thinking of doing:

What do you think?
2 comments:
Is this what you do on Fridays?
:-P
I'm more of a traditionalist so I prefer the full fireplace rather than the truncated one. I think you could still do something but keep the full brick face.
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