Fireplace Remodel With Built-in Bookshelves
Fireplace Remodel With Built-in Bookshelves
contributed by Beautiful Mess
This is our fireplace before the remodel. This was a pic taken a few years ago. It’s the only pic I could find, showing the fire place as a whole. I have always wanted shelves on each side. So during Q’s two week break he decided to tackle this project with the help of his brother and Dad.
1st day. They had to build a fake wall. He also had to chisel out the crown molding and remove the mantel which was one big piece of slate.
2nd day. We put bead board up and did more electrical.
3rd day. We bought 4 – 42 inch cabinets and put those on the bottom to use for our DVD, Wii, and game storage. We made the shelving out of MDF board.
4th day. The dry wall is hung between the shelves. We also used dry wall to frame in the fireplace. The mantel is made out of 2×4’s and MDF board.
Finished product!! We are so pleased with how it turned out. We removed the face plate and spray painted the inside of the fire place black. It isn’t in working order, so now it serves as great storage for Waylon’s toys. I love that all of our books are in one spot. The kids have been asking me to read to them more.
Cassity Kmetzsch started Remodelaholic after graduating from Utah State University with a degree in Interior Design. Remodelaholic is the place to share her love for knocking out walls, and building everything back up again to not only add function but beauty to her home. Together with her husband Justin, they have remodeled 6 homes and are working on a seventh. She is a mother of four amazing girls. Making a house a home is her favorite hobby.
We are doing a very similiar project in our family room. We are wod rig how you attached the two inside vertical piece of wood to the fireplace/celing?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Hi Kelly! This is a guest post, so if you’ll click over to the original blog (linked toward the top of the post) then they can give you more details there. Thanks!
It looks really nice, we’re plannong on doing smething very similar our selves. Where did you find the 42″ wide cabinets? That is esactly the size we need, and we’ve only been able to find 36″
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I love built in’s next to the fireplace. We have windows on either side of our fireplace and I’d love to put build-in’s there and do smaller windows above the built-in’s that would have stained glass. Maybe one of these days when we having nothing else to do; ha ha 🙂