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Yesterday I shared the beginning phase of our fireplace demo! And oh my word was that a messy process. Tearing out brick and mortar is no easy task, and involved all hands on deck. We hung plastic up to try and contain the dust. Put drop cloths down to protect the floors, but nothing prepares you for removing brick piece by piece. It was a messy job, but a necessary one if we were going to be able to give our fireplace the makeover we were longing too! Today we are picking up where I left off – the fun part! Or as I like to refer to it as the “pretty” part, where we begin to rebuild the front of the fireplace into the look we are wanting.

Today I’m sharing part 2 of our Fireplace Makeover – the demo! If you haven’t read the first post about our fireplace makeover, I recommend starting there first. You can read it HERE, and then come back to this post 🙂 Have you heard the saying that goes something like “It has to get worse before it can get better” ? I feel like in most cases with demo that saying applies, it was certainly the case for our fireplace. I’m sharing the fireplace demo process with you, because it also helps explain a little bit better why we made some of the choices we did when for our fireplace makeover.

When I first shared our fireplace on social media, so many of you weighed in and gave input as to how to give this fireplace a makeover. I knew refreshing this fireplace was going to require more than just a quick fix if I wanted it to feel like it was always apart of the home. So today I’m sharing all the ideas we’ve thought through, the solutions to some of those ideas, and why we aren’t doing some of the more common ideas you see in fireplace makeovers.