Last year I helped my Aunt update her fireplace mantel. Before we started on the mantel, she had some maintenance done on her 30 year old gas fireplace. One of the fixes was to replace the fireplace glass. I couldn’t believe the difference that new glass made, her fireplace looks brand new. That got me looking at how dirty my gas fireplace glass looks. The white haze almost made it so we couldn’t see the logs. Time to see if we can clean that fireplace glass to look new again.
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A friend in my neighborhood decided to start a weekly rotating craft club for our kids. We rotate different skills or activities for the kids to learn, each Mom taking 1 week/month. On my first week, I decided to make an Easter themed craft, a wood bunny Easter basket. I thought it would be fun for them to hammer together a little basket and have fun painting it with their creative ideas. The kids really got creative with their paint colors, very bright and unique.
The wood bunny basket, in it’s natural form…
A couple of the bunny baskets after the kids took over…
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New plans for a farmhouse nightstand with X detail. I built a pair of these nightstands to go with my King X Barndoor Farmhouse Bed. The nightstand has 3 generous sized drawers to hold all your stuff. The side planking and X detail mimic the style of the Farmhouse Bed. Generally speaking a nightstand should be about the same height of the top of the mattress. You can adjust the height of the nightstand legs to fit your needs.
I have never been impressed with my builders grade mantel, it feels a little lack luster to me. Then last Christmas, I pulled off a command strip that I left on too long and it took mantel paint off with it. That was it! I set a goal that I would upgrade my blah fireplace before the next holiday season. Besides updating the mantel, I really want to hang my TV above the fireplace to keep it out of the reach of little hands and free up some much needed space in my small living room. The style I’m going for is modern farmhouse, a corner fireplace modern farmhouse mantel! I debated between white and dark wood fireplace, and ultimately I went with white.
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Mantel Before
The mantel wall is on a corner angle, then has a jut back to the main wall. Originally I assumed that the wall was at a 45 deg angle, however I was very wrong, ha 🙂 It is something around 35.8 deg. Well isn’t that convenient. 😉 I used that 18″ jut back to the wall, and added a built in media cabinet.
The purpose of the cabinet is two fold:
Modern Farmhouse Mantel After
My husband was concerned with the viewing height of the TV above the fireplace. I found a cool TV mount that easily drops down to bring the TV to a comfortable viewing height. You can find it on Amazon here. The size linked fits my 70″ TV, but they have different sizes depending on the TV weight.
I’m especially loving the new media cabinet on the left of the fireplace that holds all of the electronics, cords, XBOX and DVDs.
If you’re going to tackle this project, you’ll first want to check out the requirements for your fireplace set up, check your user manual or google your fireplace make and model. Generally you’ll want to keep combustible materials at least 6″ away from the fireplace. There may also be a minimum distance away from fireplace and Mantel Height vs Mantel Depth clearance as well.
In my user manual for a Napoleon fireplace, there is a linear scale for mantel height vs depth. Starting at 2″ from the fireplace, the material can’t stick out to more that 2″, 4″ from the fireplace, the material can’t stick out more than 4″, 6″ for 6″, etc.
So in my case, measuring from the tile surface, the mantel legs and face stick out 4 1/4″ and they are at least 6″ from the fireplace. If you need more clearance than I have, adjust the frame size to fit your need, then follow the same process in building up the MDF pieces and adjusting to the size of your frame. It really is a simple process to build this fireplace mantel.
If you’ve been wanting to add storage to your laundry room, these laundry room cabinet plans are for very budget friendly cabinets. The tall cabinet is great for storing and organizing cleaning supplies and a vacuum. The small folding table gives space to fold laundry and fits 2 standard laundry baskets in the shelves. The 2 upper cabinets fit wonderfully above the washer and dryer. My sister in law has been wanting some cabinets to help organize her laundry room. She picked a fun paint color Zen for the cabinets. They completely transformed her room and added so much storage!
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A look at the upper cabinets.
AÂ view of the Tall cabinet and Folding table.
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