good bye fireplace

March 4, 2012: Randy decided it was time to remove the fireplace bricks before the new carpet is installed tomorrow morning. It took about 5 minutes to get the hearth bricks off.

Then about six hours to repair the rotten wood and paint.

Did I mention paint? It took a few weeks and a krajillion paint samples. We final

ly all liked Natural Almond. Laura said The Home Depot was going to think

I was going to open my own paint store with all the samples I had collected. I never would have thought it was so hard to pick out beige!