Fireplaces

In the previous post I told you we have four fireplaces, four mantels, and five chimneys.  I am very excited about having mantels to decorate each season once we move.  Let me break it down for you:

The living room has a working wood stove insert in the fireplace.  The stove has a mantel as well.  The living room also has a brick area with a mantel that I have been told was previously a wood stove of some type as well.  That makes two mantels and one fireplace in the living room.

The front room which will be a bedroom, previously a den, also has a chimney with a fireplace and mantel.  We believe this one is probably a working fireplace, but we will have it closed off before we move since it will one day be a child's room.

The master bedroom, the original living room of the house, also has a fireplace.  This fireplace had about a foot and half of leaves and dirt when we removed the front cover.  This fireplace also has a mantel.

The most exciting find of our renovation was a fireplace.   Remember this hallway closet connecting the bathroom to the master bedroom.  We were hoping when we took down this wall it would present us with the back side of the chimney from the fireplace in the bedroom.  We wanted the exposed brick to be a focal point in our master bathroom.

So Alex and Dad got to work demoing.  

This little cubby had housed shoes before we bought the house.  

It didn't take Dad very long to realize what was going on behind this cubby.  It was screwed into the brick.  So they kept at it.

Then we found it -- another fireplace (and more original wood)! 

We were SO excited!  We reworked our original design for our master bathroom and closet so we could incorporate the fireplace into our bathroom.  How awesome is that?  A fireplace in our master bathroom and bedroom.  We decided to run electric through the fireplaces and close the chimney.  We will have electric logs in both the bathroom and the bedroom.  

Another exciting component our of master bath is the tub.  Some of y'all will be totally grossed out by this and that's completely okay.  I couldn't be more excited.  Next to the house in the cow pasture was a clawfoot tub being used as a water trough.  I told Alex I wanted it in our bathroom.  We emptied the water and checked the condition, which was actually fairly good seeing as how it had been outside as a water trough for who knows how many years.  

The tub after we moved it to Alex's Papaw's house.  

Rusted Bottom 

Rusted feet we found in Papaw's shed.

We sent the tub and feet off to be sandblasted and primed.  We then decided to paint the tub white and the feet black (although I preferred chrome feet).

The tub after a coat of paint

Me inside the tub - the inside isn't perfect, but it'll be a perfect fit in our imperfect home.

The picture below is the area for the master bathroom, closet and guest bathroom after the walls were taken down.  The tub in the picture is the original tub that we moved to the guest bathroom (the wall on the front right of the picture).  The front left side of the picture (where the ladder is) was closed off for the master closet.  And about halfway through that wood board on the right side of the picture is where we put a wall up.  For a better idea, check out the picture below.  

 

 The bathroom after we framed up everything.  This is the view from the master bedroom.  The back left corner is where the toilet will go (we still don't have a working toilet in the house).  The left front of the picture is where our double 60-inch vanity will go.  The half wall is where Alex's walk-in shower is.   The fireplace is to the right of this picture followed by the closet and the clawfoot tub will sit perpendicular to the wall to the right with a chandelier above it.

Alex's walk-in marble shower - he loves it!