This DIY Home Reno Results Were Beyond My Own Expectations. My Husband and I Went into This Project Having Never Tackled Any Reno Quite Like This. We Did a Lot of Online Educating and Also Picked the Ears of the Employees at Home Depot and Ceramic Decor.
This was What We Started Out With... An Ugly Fireplace and a Very Boring Wall for Our TV to Hang :/
And This My Friends is Our New Very Sexy Stone Wall!
The Entire Project for All of the Stone, Mantles, Trim and Installation Materials Cost Less Than $700!!! :O
For the Stone Wall We Purchased Ledger Stone in Sierra From Ceramic Decor and Also Rented From Them the Wet Saw We Needed for Cutting.
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We Were Informed That the Product is Very Difficult to Cut and to Expect a Lot of Broken Pieces When Trying to Cut it. However We Didn't Have a Single One Break! Perhaps We Had a Very Sharp Blade on the Wet Saw? Regardless We Took Our Time Cutting.
The Whole Wall Installation Despite it Taking About 10 Hours for My Husband and I To Complete We Got into a Good Rhythm with Only a Couple Difficult Spots That Took Some Extra Time to Get Through and Got the Whole Project Done in 1 Very Long Day! I Measured and Marked the Stone for My Husband to Cut and After I Glued The Veneer to the Wall After Handing Him His Next Measured Stone to Cut.
For the Floating Mantles We Went for a Beautiful and Rustic Look of Live Edge Wood.
Lastly we Used a Grey Wash Barnboard to Frame the Fireplace and Built a Harth, Then Matched Window Trim to Tie it All Together. This Wall Transformed Our Cozy Living Room in a Way That Paint Never Could Have.
Thanks for Reading Through! If You Enjoyed My Before/ After Pictures Kindly Upvote :D