Duchess or anyone else who has a good eye...

[Cracker]

I like slate. It's clean lines and earthy. I bet you could slap some over the brick and do a new wooden mantle. I still say go with the big honkin' tv though.

[Cracker]

I'm telling you, paint the wall brown. Then the cabinetry will add the touch of lightness. It's easier to paint a wall.

Damn Cracker! I see it!

I would go with shit brown. Just because. hahaha

[Maggot]

Is that fireplace full brick or half brick?

[username]

Is that fireplace full brick or half brick?

It took me a minute but you mean the depth of the brick? It's full brick.

[IMaDick]

Is that fireplace full brick or half brick?

It took me a minute but you mean the depth of the brick? It's full brick.

It's the 60's all over again.

[Maggot]

Is that fireplace full brick or half brick?

It took me a minute but you mean the depth of the brick? It's full brick.

I like brick especially full brick. It is expensive and hard to find a good mason. If you use the fireplace brick holds the heat and keeps the place warm for hours after the fire goes out. I would never put a tele above it but would try to find another wall to hang it on keeping the fireplace off to the side. It can become a focal point if you have a party by rearranging the furniture. Do you use it?

[username]

If you never use it lose it, If you do use it don't put your TV over it, forget the travertine, double the size of the fire box lower it down and get rid of the raised hearth, use a nice marble or even a stamped concrete at floor level, Brass and glass screen, have a solid oak cover made that takes up the rest of it including the wall where the TV sits now, fashion that space to my left looking at the picture for your entertainment center, large ornate oak mantle at least three corbels, forget about the stain and use an alcohol dye on the wood just to pop the grain and leave the natural color of the closed grain then a sprayed or hand rubbed Matte urethane finish.

I'm going to have to process what you're saying (appreciate the input). We don't use the fireplace as it is (too lazy and do you know how many spiders and creepy things hide in woodpiles? Uh-uh, not for me). But if I had a gas fireplace that I could just turn on? I'd use it. I *think* if we don't get a major heat producing insert, we could mount a t.v. over it without damaging the t.v.

Like I said, I need to process the rest of your suggestions because....I don't know shit about this stuff and I'll have to read up on some of it. Thank you.

[username]

Hahaha. That's your new tv. It's LED so you lurve it.

I have to lower the mantel down or else the t.v. will sit too high--not optimal viewing height and all that shit.

[Maggot]

Well if you do not use it a fireplace is nothing but a bug catcher. 2 square things above and below each other look a little weird. I would close off the fireplace and put either an entertainment center there with the tele above or a bookshelf. You can cover the fireplace with it but put a firestop in the chimney in case there was ever a fire you do not want a chimney helping to fan the flames. Cap the top so no critters get in there and if you ever sell it the new owners would have the option of either fixing it or keeping it covered.

[Maggot]

Oh yeah.......about your bathroom it looks fine who cares what your MIL says. You go there to shit,shower and shave not have dinner. Spend your money on an extended summer vacation. It looks wonderfuckinfull.

[BlueTiki]

Actually I probally wouldn't do anything and just tell my husband to fuck off.

. . . and tell his incontinent mother to change her adult diaper at the Senior Center BEFORE visiting your home.

[Maggot]

If you never use it lose it, If you do use it don't put your TV over it, forget the travertine, double the size of the fire box lower it down and get rid of the raised hearth, use a nice marble or even a stamped concrete at floor level, Brass and glass screen, have a solid oak cover made that takes up the rest of it including the wall where the TV sits now, fashion that space to my left looking at the picture for your entertainment center, large ornate oak mantle at least three corbels, forget about the stain and use an alcohol dye on the wood just to pop the grain and leave the natural color of the closed grain then a sprayed or hand rubbed Matte urethane finish.

I'm going to have to process what you're saying (appreciate the input). We don't use the fireplace as it is (too lazy and do you know how many spiders and creepy things hide in woodpiles? Uh-uh, not for me). But if I had a gas fireplace that I could just turn on? I'd use it. I *think* if we don't get a major heat producing insert, we could mount a t.v. over it without damaging the t.v.

Like I said, I need to process the rest of your suggestions because....I don't know shit about this stuff and I'll have to read up on some of it. Thank you.

Nobody here is as good as Dick for hand polishing wood, hell...... I bet he polishes his twice a day.

[Cracker]

Actually I probally wouldn't do anything and just tell my husband to fuck off.

. . . and tell his incontinent mother to change her adult diaper at the Senior Center BEFORE visiting your home.

[IMaDick]

If you never use it lose it, If you do use it don't put your TV over it, forget the travertine, double the size of the fire box lower it down and get rid of the raised hearth, use a nice marble or even a stamped concrete at floor level, Brass and glass screen, have a solid oak cover made that takes up the rest of it including the wall where the TV sits now, fashion that space to my left looking at the picture for your entertainment center, large ornate oak mantle at least three corbels, forget about the stain and use an alcohol dye on the wood just to pop the grain and leave the natural color of the closed grain then a sprayed or hand rubbed Matte urethane finish.

I'm going to have to process what you're saying (appreciate the input). We don't use the fireplace as it is (too lazy and do you know how many spiders and creepy things hide in woodpiles? Uh-uh, not for me). But if I had a gas fireplace that I could just turn on? I'd use it. I *think* if we don't get a major heat producing insert, we could mount a t.v. over it without damaging the t.v.

Like I said, I need to process the rest of your suggestions because....I don't know shit about this stuff and I'll have to read up on some of it. Thank you.

Nobody here is as good as Dick for hand polishing wood, hell...... I bet he polishes his twice a day.

Stop changing your reply you chicken shit motherfucker, first Duchess then MF and now nothing.

useless fuck, grow some balls luke jr.

[Maggot]

Ok....Maggot then. I have decided. You would be surprized at all the shit I type before sending it, and how many times I hit the back button never to be seen again, sometimes pages of shit it scares me sometimes...........

[IMaDick]

Ok....Maggot then. I have decided. You would be surprized at all the shit I type before sending it, and how many times I hit the back button never to be seen again, sometimes pages of shit it scares me sometimes...........

exposing your queer side? you should have kept that hidden from me.

[Maggot]

Ok....Maggot then. I have decided. You would be surprized at all the shit I type before sending it, and how many times I hit the back button never to be seen again, sometimes pages of shit it scares me sometimes...........

exposing your queer side? you should have kept that hidden from me.

Fuck.......I was trying to get you off my ass.

[Cracker]

Ok....Maggot then. I have decided. You would be surprized at all the shit I type before sending it, and how many times I hit the back button never to be seen again, sometimes pages of shit it scares me sometimes...........

exposing your queer side? you should have kept that hidden from me.

Is this your way of saying, "Don't drop the soap"?

I heard you are a sucker for a goatse.

[username]

Ok....Maggot then. I have decided. You would be surprized at all the shit I type before sending it, and how many times I hit the back button never to be seen again, sometimes pages of shit it scares me sometimes...........

exposing your queer side? you should have kept that hidden from me.

Is this your way of saying, "Don't drop the soap"?

I heard you are a sucker for a goatse.

Oh snap!

[Maggot]

That is so baaaad!