Still Rambling about My Fireplace

You’re probably wondering if I’m ever going to shut up about my new fireplace.

Probably not.

I still love it, but I felt like maybe the black and white were too contrast-y. My furniture suddenly seemed so dark. So I switched out my couches, tables and fireplace cover. I’m still not sure whether I made the right decision, but I feel okay about it because at least I broke even.

Before:

After:

I found this lovely little number at the thrift store. I think it might have had a glass top in its former life.

I found a piece of wood luan (left over from the fireplace project) in the garage and glued it where the glass would have gone. Then I painted, stained and got new hardware and it’s good as new.

I found this end table on KSL. I didn’t take a before picture, but it was all white. I started sanding down the top and found wood underneath. Eureka! So I stained it to match the coffee table and switched out the hardware. Don’t they look like they could be siblings?

The couches are from Ikea. I really wanted the cream slipcovers, but they were dry clean only and three times more expensive. So I bought white covers and washed them with a tiny bit of tan Rit dye. They came out just how I hoped they would. I love it when that happens.

I made the fireplace cover from the cheapest wood you can find at Home Depot. I think it’s supposed to be for fences. I bought 30-feet of it for like $6, chopped it up, and attached it together with a couple of hinges.

Sometimes I wonder why in the world I would buy white couches when I have little kids, but people all over the Internet say they love their white slipcovers because they can just throw them in the washing machine any old time. I might have huge regrets in a month or two, but for now I think I love them.