My Edwardian fireplace renovation

[bettyfloormop]

Really pleased with how this turned out

Looks beautiful I'm always amazed at what people cover up in houses

That's amazing, so beautiful

This is looks amazing , love the tiles.
It's so satisfying isn't it.

Sadly I think period fireplaces fell out of favour in the mid 20th century, and were considered a bit naff.

Luckily for us most of them seem to have just been painted to buggery or covered, not totally ripped out thankfully.

Love it we also have beautiful fireplaces in our house

Oh, well done! Looking good.

@Essexgirlupnorth

Love it we also have beautiful fireplaces in our house

That's nice 😂

Great job! It looks lovely.

My Mum did her back in in the 70s removing all the fireplaces. Literally slipped her disc. It was quite a botch job too.

Stunning!

When we were having some work done on our house, the builder discovered a whole load of fireplace fittings like grates and mantle supports plus a lovely copper fire screen ‘walled up’ at the back of the understairs cupboard. It had been sealed off and just looked like a dead end.

The fireplaces had been removed in the dining room and the bedrooms by a previous owner who had done a lot of structural work ( much of it dodgy ) in the late 80s . We still can’t work out why all the iron work was hidden like that - builder bravely checked there were no bodies as well !

I used a grate for the remaining, non functioning but pretty , front room fireplace and gave some to neighbour who was restoring more of their fireplaces.

It's lovely!! Exactly what you'd pray was behind there!!!

Thanks all.

We had a go at the one in our current dining room, unfortunately it had been butchered, so have bought a 'new' one which looks as if it will fit the space perfectly

Looks beautiful

Boooo...

... yayy!

Brilliant

Gorgeous. Our dining room fireplace has sadly been destroyed- no remains of the original just a naff 80s mantelpiece stuck over it- so I’m very jealous

@Loveitloveitloveit oh no.. but you can pick up salvaged fireplaces on Marketplace for not too much. Could you put a new one in?

I’ll have a look @bettyfloormop. I’m trying to restore as many original features as I can, but everything is covered in a million layers of white paint

It looks really beautiful.

You've done a wonderful job, well done

Both of these restorations are beautiful, bet you can’t wait for cold nights to light them.

@Letsrunabath sadly they are just for decoration!

@namechangerforthisconfessionn

Looks beautiful I'm always amazed at what people cover up in houses

I'd much rather people covered up things like this and beautiful staircases, than rip them out. Beautiful work @bettyfloormop

I meant to say, same here @namechangerforthisconfessionn but I guess fashions and tastes change

Just saw the beautiful green tiles when you opened up the surround. Were they salvagable @bettyfloormop?