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tag: fireplaces and chimneys

Just Right @ 144 sq.ft.

RYagid, senior editor | February 15th, 20127 comments

A small home in the California mountains is designed for reflection and conversation. Inspiration for small-home living.

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A Custom Built-In Entertainment Center

RYagid, senior editor | January 9th, 20122 comments

A modern built-in accomodates TV and stereo storage

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A Relaxing Retreat

WarthConstruction, member | November 14th, 2011

The clients wanted to have an entertaining deck, but they also wanted to have a private covered deck accesible from their master bedroom. They wanted it to include a large fireplace as well as a few...

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Mountain Porch Retreat

WarthConstruction, member | November 14th, 2011

Our region has an extended outdoor season that the homeowners wanted to take full advantage of. The existing deck was not adequate for hosting large parties and had no covered space for protection...

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Lessons From a Small Studio

RYagid, senior editor | October 5th, 201110 comments

What a well designed, small studio can teach us about designing better homes.

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How To Use SketchUp's "Photo Match" Feature to Efficiently Design Remodeling Projects

TheTimberTailor, member | September 7th, 2011

See how importing digital photos into SketchUp can jump-start the design process and aid bidding and selling your next built-in cabinet project.

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Choosing a Chimney Flue-Top Damper

MikeGuertin, editorial advisor | June 1st, 2011

Pop-up dampers and hinged dampers install and operate similarly.

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Townhome Fireplace, Built-ins, Wainscoting, and Molding - Before and After from an amature

Ayersman, member | April 20th, 20111 comment

My own home by an amature wood worker. After looking at sky-rocketing cost estimates and generic options offered, I decided to take on the task of creating a quality classical Living, Dining Room...

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You know they designed the attic ventilation to take care of this!!!!!!

TX_Inspector, member | October 18th, 20103 comments

The pipe in the middle of the second picture is a fireplace flue! This photo was taken at the "meter release" inspection after drywall is installed, etc. The fireplace this is connected to wasnt...

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Family Paradise

thelandscaper, member | May 30th, 20101 comment

I designed and built this fantastic outdoor living space for this fine home in Duncan, SC.  We chose Tennessee sandstone to complement the home and for its beauty and warmth.  The Fireplace...

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Firepit

idahoguy, member | May 5th, 20102 comments

I had a corner of my yard that was not being used so I thought I'd put in a firepit.  Most of it was designed on the fly.  I had no prior experience with masonry and I'm sure some of the...

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Fireplace makeover

EGHMS, member | April 8th, 2010

Face lift for a seventy's era white brick fireplace using manufactured stone. the mantle is made from quarter sawn oak that was once a an old bedframe.

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Modern Makeover - The Living Room

MAK_DESIGN_BUILD, member | March 29th, 20101 comment

Remodeled Living Room - added fireplace, sustainable cabinetry, new doors and windows.  Reframed roof to increase ceiling height, finished concrete slab.

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Entertainment Center & Mantle

RobOlejniczak, member | December 16th, 20092 comments

These built-ins and mantle were built for a client in Newport, RI this past summer.  They are located in the family room section of a large great room  I recently started designing with...

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Craftsman Fireplace with built-in media cabinets

AdamWestlake, member | December 1st, 20091 comment

I own a 55 yr old home that I am in the process of renovating. There was a hideous plywood and black tile electric fireplace here to begin with that just taking up space and maing the room feel...

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Fireplace/Media Wall

BdhSdfCr, member | November 28th, 2009

This fireplace/media wall fills an empty end wall of an open plan family room, kitchen, dining area.  Project is designed to compliment the kitchen cabinets with similar glazing and molding...

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Tucker Timber Frame

Chuck4752, member | October 5th, 2009

This home is a two story 2000 SF timber frame built from old growth doug fir.  All timber recycled from Pier 3 in Astoria OR (built in 1913).  All cabinets and trim are built from the same...

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Fait Accompli: Our First House...Finished

sjdehner, member | May 13th, 20094 comments

After almost two years of steady work our passive-solar house is now "officially" built. Looking back it hardly seems possible... Thanks to a combination of mutual enthusiasm, several talented...

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Knotty Pine Den Goes Contemporary

homemasons, member | March 30th, 2009

This room was dark, boring and out of date - a typical c.1960's lower-level den overwhelmed by the knotty pine paneling.  Other issues included a low, cracked, textured ceiling, poor...

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Reader Feedback: Fine Homebuilding Issue #202, April/May 2009

RDA, producer | February 26th, 20092 comments

Readers respond to Alex Wilson's open letter to President Obama and more.

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