Our mason, Lenny, has been promising to get to the dining room fireplace project for weeks. He began work on it yesterday! Joel and Steve and I have been discussing various scenarios for the rebuild, and we think we have come up with a neat idea. Rather than recreate the bread oven dome (which is going to be covered up by Sheetrock anyway) we plan on keeping the front facade of the oven, but only a few inches deep...perhaps 12. Behind that we intend to recess my kitchen counter and the cupboards above so that when you are seated in the dining room, your view into the kitchen will not be as obstructed. We'll see how this thought pans out. In any event, Lenny is busy removing the old bricks. Hopefully sometime towards the end of the week he will begin the re pointing and rebuilding of the chimney.
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