Hi all,
I'm in the middle of a large remodel in my kitchen/dining room and the centerpiece of that room is the 1830s brick fireplace and beehive oven. I figured you'd all be appreciative of a few 'so far' photos. The overall plan for the room is:
1) raise the ceiling height by reframing the attic floor, dropping the ceiling and exposing the old timber framing. This was a 2-for-1 where we needed to improve the insulation in the ceiling as well, so we've just gone from 6" of poorly installed fiberglass to 11" of minealwool. We'll also have a little more headroom and some recessed lighting.
2) re-floor to new (but similar) plank pine flooring
3) new electrical to replace the scary, mouse-eaten wiring at this end of the hosue
4) new kitchen
and finally!
5) give our fireplace some love!
The floor of the fireplace only extends out about a foot from the front of the fireplace opening and so we've been running one of those crappy metal hardware store protectors. One change will be to re-frame the floor to allow a mason to come out to extend the hearth out to 42" from the face of the fireplace. The house mostly has a full depth field-stone foundation, but this very end of the house is only above a crawlspace, so the new hearth will probably end up being brick on slab on grade. My hope is to just have the bricks cleaned and re-pointed and perhaps have a new plaster coat put on the beehive? TBD on that one. We will NOT be closing it all in when we are done, so we're still getting used to staring at this thing.
Here's where it was when we started:
And here was the 'reveal'
So there it is. Got my call out to the mason and I'll update with more photos as the project progresses. For the immediate term, I'm going to pull the Jotul off the flue to let the crew work and then I'll put it right back, but I DO already have a new Woodstock Absolute Steel sitting in my other fireplace waiting for the major work in here to be done. I'm not too sure about replacing flue liner and clambering around on my roof while its covered in ice/snow, so I may hold off on that install until closer to the spring.
Dan
I'm in the middle of a large remodel in my kitchen/dining room and the centerpiece of that room is the 1830s brick fireplace and beehive oven. I figured you'd all be appreciative of a few 'so far' photos. The overall plan for the room is:
1) raise the ceiling height by reframing the attic floor, dropping the ceiling and exposing the old timber framing. This was a 2-for-1 where we needed to improve the insulation in the ceiling as well, so we've just gone from 6" of poorly installed fiberglass to 11" of minealwool. We'll also have a little more headroom and some recessed lighting.
2) re-floor to new (but similar) plank pine flooring
3) new electrical to replace the scary, mouse-eaten wiring at this end of the hosue
4) new kitchen
and finally!
5) give our fireplace some love!
The floor of the fireplace only extends out about a foot from the front of the fireplace opening and so we've been running one of those crappy metal hardware store protectors. One change will be to re-frame the floor to allow a mason to come out to extend the hearth out to 42" from the face of the fireplace. The house mostly has a full depth field-stone foundation, but this very end of the house is only above a crawlspace, so the new hearth will probably end up being brick on slab on grade. My hope is to just have the bricks cleaned and re-pointed and perhaps have a new plaster coat put on the beehive? TBD on that one. We will NOT be closing it all in when we are done, so we're still getting used to staring at this thing.
Here's where it was when we started:
And here was the 'reveal'
So there it is. Got my call out to the mason and I'll update with more photos as the project progresses. For the immediate term, I'm going to pull the Jotul off the flue to let the crew work and then I'll put it right back, but I DO already have a new Woodstock Absolute Steel sitting in my other fireplace waiting for the major work in here to be done. I'm not too sure about replacing flue liner and clambering around on my roof while its covered in ice/snow, so I may hold off on that install until closer to the spring.
Dan
