Not everyone has the opportunity to acquire a real wood-burning fireplace , but we all want to decorate our home with at least a symbolic hearth. From this, the house is inhabited by a special cosiness and such a unique home atmosphere. And today we will tell you how to make an imitation fireplace with your own hands.
Most often, for the construction of so-called false fireplaces , gypsum plaster constructions based on metal profiles are used (from which the frame of the future fireplace is made). In our master class, we will also use this idea.
Simulating a fireplace with your own hands - step by step instruction
If you are not satisfied with a simple store electric fireplace, you can frame it with plasterboard construction, which will increase the resemblance to the traditional home hearth.
Such imitation of the fireplace by your own hands is quite available in the apartment, so now you too will become the owner of your own cozy corner, before which it will be very pleasant to sit in the evening with a book and a cup of hot chocolate.
Purchased electric fireplace around the contours on the wall, where it is supposed to install it.
Starting from this, we trace the contours of the whole future construction.
Then follows the stage of mounting the structure of the metal profile and the wooden beam.
Now the resulting design needs to be gypsum cardboard - this is the main stage of the process of simulating a fireplace with your own hands.
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To decorate the shelves on the sides of the "fireplace" we need a lot of wooden blocks, cut in one size by a cutter, sanded using sandpaper. The outer end, which will look into the room, should be rounded.
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Gently place the resulting blocks on the glue.
This is the intermediate result of the work on the creation of a home.
Now screw the upper shelves with a screwdriver.
To give the tree a noble appearance, we age it with a burner and a metal brush. This process is called brashing. We open the aged wood with a transparent varnish.
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It remains to trim the plasterboard walls of the fireplace with an artificial stone. If the color does not match the idea, you can paint the stone after it is pasted in any color with a special paint or varnish.
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In our opinion, this imitation of the fireplace with its own hands looks very believable and beautiful. In addition, there is room for additional decoration with all sorts of figurines and other trinkets.