Homemaker's Journal: Grateful Living: Class Up The M.H. Fireplace

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Grateful Living: Class Up The M.H. Fireplace

Some women go through life turning on lamps in the evening. Others are themselves a light. ~Helen Parks

One of the first renovating projects I did (after replacing the carpet!) in our mobile home was to antique the fireplace. The original was pretty cheap looking wood and cheap looking tile. My husband replaced the tile with marble leftover from the house we built. He also painted the fireplace insert with a brown, "hammered-look" spray paint designed for metal that can be exposed to heat (I think Rust-oleum brand). I replaced the blah handles with adorable twig-shaped ones. I used the below product that I found at Walmart at the time. It was very simple. Because the adjacent wall has my cross-stitch collection displayed on it and there's a TV above the mantle, I chose to decorate the mantle sparsely. I have my grandma's figurines from her dining room that my sister and I used to play with (and quite possibly broke!).

I'm pretty siked about another Rust-oleum product on the market that will class up my kitchen cabinets. I chose a light color for the fireplace to make the tiny living room appear larger. I would do the same with the kitchen cabinets as well: http://cabinets.rustoleumtransformations.com/