Between building the goat barn and repairing the pantry roof , the pile of leftover wood scraps has become pretty large. Add to that a coup...

(Continued from here. ) Except for a few finishing details, the stove is in and the alcove is done. (You can click on most of these ima...

Continued from here . Because of it's construction, the cement board did not have a paintable surface texture. DH covered it with tiles...

Continued from here . Once the brick hearth was laid (see link above), we needed to finish off the top half of the alcove. The ceiling w...

Well, finished for now anyway. Dan has built it up from the first course of bricks , to as high as we are going to go to create our woodstov...

Well, technically we've begun phase 3 of our hearth project , which is bricking up a portion of the alcove for the woodstove. That is g...

In the comments of The New Hearth - Phase 1 , Dorothy asked about what was underneath the new slab. This is a good question, and I can te...

It's been awhile since I've mentioned anything about our chimney/fireplace project. It's not that we haven't been working o...

Once we finished taking the chimney down from the top (click here for that) and through the attic floor (and click here to see that), it w...