When we first saw our house, we thought the fireplace was ok, although we were sad that someone decided that painting it gray would be a good idea. It wasn't our favorite part of the house, but we had a sneaking suspicion that there might be stone underneath the drywall above the mantel. There was really no way to know without some demolition. A few weeks after moving in we finally removed the poorly installed crown molding from the living room so we could paint, so there were a few inches of drywall at the very top of the fireplace wall that we could cut away without being unable to replace the molding later and cover the hole. Nick got his sawzall out and cut away the tiniest few square inches of sheetrock...
...and we saw stone behind it! We were still uncertain of the condition of the stone, so we left it alone for a few more weeks. One night, Nick came home from work and was in a destructive kind of mood, so he just started hacking away (carefully) at the seams of the sheetrock, and when it was all said and done the entire wall was down within half an hour!
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| Whoever committed this fireplace crime didn't expect that wall to ever come down, as evidenced by the massive amount of glue they used to hold the sheetrock on. |
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| So much better, even with glue and boards stuck all over it! |
Now we have a lot of glue to continue scraping off and we are hoping we can use our wire brush attachment for our drill to remove as much of the soot from the top half and paint from the bottom half so they'll both look cleaner and newer. Even the crummy painted-white mantel looks nicer already just with that one change! I really can't imagine why anyone would ever make a decision like this, but clearly this house is full of bad ideas! Luckily we came along to rescue it from bad taste hell!
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