Cozy Living Room Fireplace: Your Electric Fireplace Guide
Our next project is one Iām ā to be quite honest ā pretty intimidated by: creating a cozy stacked stone living room fireplace from a blank wall in our living room. We built a fireplace in our last living room, but that one was tiled and thereās something about stone that seems like itāll take a lot more skill: itās heavy, needs a bit of Tetris work to get the right mixture of stone shapes, you need to grout in a piping bag, and did I mention heavy?
Still, if we can pull it off, itās going to be so worth it.
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Living room fireplace: The before
Weāve been living with this TV mounted on the wall with no furniture underneath it for over a year. I didnāt want to spend money on an entertainment center or other bulky piece of furniture knowing weād build this fireplace at some point so weāve lived with the dangling cords driving me crazy this whole time. This before view is okayyyyy, but I think we can all admit it’s pretty boring. It’s giving first-day-in-the-new-house when we’ve lived here a year, so let’s fix it.
The inspiration
The new vibe in here is not going to be single-guy-just-graduated-college anymore, but cozy modern English cottage. Iām going for overgrouted stone, which is literally as it sounds: adding more-than-usual grout into the joints like in the inspiration photos.
I want the lines between the stones to be softened with the grout, but I donāt want a ton of it covering the face of the stone like painting it white or limewashing would do because I feel like it would lose the dimension of the stone pieces.
The plan
We got started working on the 2×4 structure last weekend, and the next step is wrapping it all in cement board. The cement board is a backer for the stone, and has some specific requirements for how far apart the screws need to be, what kind of joint tape to use and what type of mortar to use to make sure itās all strong enough to hold the stone veneer (which is about 10-12 pounds per piece).
The stone weāre using should be arriving in the next week and Iām so excited to share it when it arrives (even though we have to haul the boxes from our driveway up to the house by ourselves which will be a real upper body strength test).
I canāt wait to be cozied up in this new living room space so soon. We may be building a fireplace in Florida on the cusp of summer, but the best part about building an electric fireplace is that you can have the cozy snuggled-up-under-a-blanket vibes without sweating too profusely.
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