Finally getting some time to modify photos I took when getting ready for my stove install. Hope this works...Started out as a project to save some propane money, then turned into a much larger project of finishing my basement...Started Feb last year when I purchased the stove, needed to run electrical to put it in the corner, so had to stud out a wall so I didn't need to run conduit. Well since I started studding out a wall, might as well add a couple of more walls, hey we can put a bar down here and how about a tv/theater room...Well simple project turned into a year long project, finally finishing up in Jan. this year. Enough with my boring story, I'll try to add the pictures I resized today so they would upload.
Heres the puzzle, I didn't want a standard hearth pad that they wanted to throw in with the stove, got them to give me a credit for not including the pad that was in the package deal. I framed up a raised hearth, was going to tile, but figured I wanted something different. Found some cultured stone on Craigslist someone had left over for $20. This would go on the front edges. Next for a top. Was thinking making a concrete counter top, but the pad I made was so big it would've weighed too much for me to lift. Then looked at getting limestone, again how to lift it (going in a basement) and it was going to be expensive, around $500. So kept looking, went to a quary and talked to a guy, he had some limestone "pieces" that I could buy for $50. I figured I could piece together as a puzzle. Since it wasn't working out quite right, I cut them into "tiles" so it looked somewhat symetrical
Heres the puzzle, I didn't want a standard hearth pad that they wanted to throw in with the stove, got them to give me a credit for not including the pad that was in the package deal. I framed up a raised hearth, was going to tile, but figured I wanted something different. Found some cultured stone on Craigslist someone had left over for $20. This would go on the front edges. Next for a top. Was thinking making a concrete counter top, but the pad I made was so big it would've weighed too much for me to lift. Then looked at getting limestone, again how to lift it (going in a basement) and it was going to be expensive, around $500. So kept looking, went to a quary and talked to a guy, he had some limestone "pieces" that I could buy for $50. I figured I could piece together as a puzzle. Since it wasn't working out quite right, I cut them into "tiles" so it looked somewhat symetrical