AMAZING JOB!!!

Love it! What a positive difference!

Love the generous scale of the fireplace and the very custom look of the wood surround.

Thanks guys. Here is one more shot of the re-done fireplace

Beautiful Transformation!

Good work!

Great Transformation!

Ingenious! Great work with the doors. Like the built in woodbox too.

Terrific idea! It looks great!

Everything is beautiful in this room along with the fireplace!
Soooo comfy looking. Beautifully photographed.

Great job! Beautiful.

Wow - fantastic! How did you think of that?

Lyvonne
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Beautiful, did you use doors for all the trim as well, it's a lovely job!

Lovely! How clever you are.
Mo

Beautiful job!

You have a great eye for design, your room is stunning!

Thanks once again! I wanted to to a raised panel detail but honestly didn't have the $$ for it. The doors were sitting in pile and it just came to me that they looked like raised panels. My carpenter (and absolute genius) will make an attempt at any of my crazy ideas reveled in it. The trim, G. Elizabeth, was just poplar and some Home Depot molding. The thing that really made it work was the quality of the paint and painting. Yes I did it myself and it was Benjamin Moore paint.
Here is the final door detail before paint.

Hi, absolutely great fplc redo except from my perspective, the undersized gallery wrap painting does not send me. I think the painting should be larger and framed but that's just me. Take care,Janet

One more thing...I did like the stain of the old doors before the white, but now that you have white, how about a rich wall color for a high contrast? That would be stunning.

The white looks great. Most men would have rather died than paint wood but wood is not all that. Most of the time unless its walnut or something exotic, it looks dated, not rich. Congrats on a job well done.

CMR Interiors. LOL. I agree. When I suggest to most men that they paint wood it often does not go well, to say the least.
Art Gems/Janet: I wanted a very "Hamptons" look to the room, thus the white. I use color often but didn't want it here. As far as the size of the painting larger would certainly not have worked, and sometime framing is just not in the budget. Thanks for looking!

I think it's stunning just the way it is! Fantastic repurposing of found items. Did you lower the ceiling? In the before pictures it looks like the ceiling is vaulted.

Yes Mary we did lower and make a flat ceiling. It made the room much more livable and gave us a huge storage space above. Still not sure why we ever bought this house!!! You should see what we did to the kitchen!

Yes, for the Hamptons look I now understand completely the white mantle and lighter wall. I must say the salvage door idea was fantastic for sure! It seems this same concept could be applied to rooms for wainsotting or sides of stairwells (does the latter have a particular name in decor lingo?)

Art Gems: Just a" raised panel" in a staircase (I think!). I have dragged around solid doors everywhere because you never know where they can be used!

Beautiful job of repurposing with elegance!
Bravo!

Holy Smokes! Gorgeous!

Very clever, one of the more innovative repurposing of materials I have seen!

Very interesting.

Very smart. I love it-- looks terrific!

Beautiful! I love it!

Ditto, to all the above. Wonderful, beautiful, inventive, creative!!! Nicely done.

Big fan of this work! all the details - nooks and crannies!

smart repurposing of doors. very nice room. it's confident and welcoming.
the size of the painting works and i deliberately use several unframed paintings mixed with framed in decorating. it gives the space a pleasing, more gallery like feel.

Love the transformation! Great job!

You need a show stopper of a fireplace here let us give you some ideas: http://www.houzz.com/projects/157207/Antique-Stone-Fireplaces

Ancient Surfaces did you read all the posts and look at all the images? There is already a 'show stopper' of a fireplace.

I think the fireplace in the after picture definitely overrides any of those fire places above! I think your fireplace is gorgeous! :)

Great job repurposing, what a beautiful transformation!

Thanks for the comments Mary, ukns & FineStems. Ancients Surfaces fireplaces are bit over the top for my taste. Plus mine cost about $300 total (ands that was all labor)!

Should have taken a bit more time reading the above before blasting my images off. Now I see what you're talking about. Great job!

Beautiful!

Absolutely fantastic !!! You clever peeps !!!!

What an absolutely wonderful transformation!!! Well done!