Decorating with flair!

Carol Dee

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Carol love your fireplace is it limestone or wood?
WOOD, Very old with peeling paint. We could not decided how to finish it, so it was left in that condition. We LIKE it. :D
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And here is the old trunk. It came out of an OLD farm house my Brother bought. It has square nails.
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I would deffinately install the beams to give the room the visual balance that it needs. However installing a large fireplace mantle and surround not so much as it would be visually off balance since you already have 2 wooden shelves on the brick wall as well as the 2 heat registers ( ?) just above the R side shelf and the air intake at the floor.
 

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I could do the crackle finish but it would never really look like the original peeled paint. We like it. :)
 

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@Carol Dee you have a very good eye, sweet plant stand next to fireplace.
Thanks @Nyboy The plant stand came from a Great Aunt. She always had the most beautiful ferns, babies tears and African violets All of which I can not keep alive. :( (And look closely at the book on the trunk, does it look familiar?) ;)
 

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This thread is making me look at the hard earned paint job I did on our doublewide redneck mansion and thinking already about a repaint. I used one color throughout the house on the walls, one color for the ceilings and one color for the trim. We're not even moved in yet and I already want to start changing colors.......DH would kill me........
Then don't -- I repeat -- DON'T READ THIS THREAD UNTIL YOU ARE ALL MOVED IN! You have enough on your plate getting the doublewide livable and doing that famously well. I would certainly testify on behalf of your DH should the worst happen and he comes back to find Azalea Blossom walls.
 
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