update on the house

We had a few dead weeks around here with our house project.

Waiting on stone, waiting on stove pipe....getting held up trying to figure it all out.


We also made a major change to our fireplace design.

Originally, we were planning to do a normal woodburning fireplace, with the big open hole, in which we'd have the screen around and it would be pretty open.

Similar to this...


But then Dave deciced on a wood-burning stove...for it's efficiency and that nice tax rebate that comes with it.

So then we were looking at something that would need to look like this. I guess the stove was also an insert so it could be placed in a fireplace.


Then he came up with a new idea after seeing a picture.






Can you tell what we're doing????

There's a little "cove" where the stove will sit. We bought legs for the stove, so it will be a normal wood-burning stove, but it will sit in this little stone cove.


I wasn't so sure about this at first. I actually had to just tell Dave that I trusted him, he could do what he thought would look best. He knows I really want a mantle, which I'm still getting, so all is good! I'm really liking it. He is currently working on the stone and the stove pipe.

We're hoping to be done soon so we can enjoy the fire!