Fall and Fireplaces

So it is Fall and I love it ....but I was also thinking about it won't be long until we can start having fires in our fireplace. That took me to the thought of showing you some photos of our home in the beginning and then now.

So this photo was taken from our loft looking down on a wood stove that we bought used thinking it would be a start for us. And then as we stacked the logs on this wall we also thought maybe someday in the future we would want to ad a garage onto this end of the house and so behind the picture we planned to cut in a door.

So as you can see in this photo the door is in and Cliff & Justin ( our son) are starting to cut out the logs in the part of the wall to to add a true wood burning fireplace.

Above they are almost done taking the logs out.....funny Cliff thought wow this will be easy but it didn't happen to be that easy.... they had to cut each log out. When we built the logs where connected with12" spikes now they are 12" lags.

This photo is a couple of years old you can see how the project turned out to be a very nice River Rock ( local rock) fireplace. We love the wood fireplace nothing can match the feel, smell or sound of that crackling fire. You are correct it isn't the most efficient way to heat but we have a heat pump for that. You can also see we have a glass door that connects up to our new entry and the 30x30 garage that was added. Above the garage is our office....come see us sometime we love to share our home which is also our model!