Make Your Own Fireplace Out Of Boxes

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Make your own fireplace out of boxes.

If your image of christmas includes stockings hanging on a fireplace but your home doesn t have one you can make a surprisingly realistic version from cardboard. Turn the boxes on their sides and stack them up to make the fireplace base. Start with four cardboard display boards the kind students use for science projects. In order to make the fireplace out of the boxes of this kind it is enough to glue it with a self adhesive film or wallpaper with a brick or stone print.

This brought the total height up to four feet. Then tape the sides and back seams together. When i was a child i heard the story in which santa claus comes down the chimney and enters through the fireplace on christmas eve. Christmas without a fireplace just doesn t feel complete.

On my box i cut off the flaps on the half i didn t use and hot glued them to the bottoms of my fireplace overlapping by a couple inches. Then start painting on your faux bricks using the sponge. Depending on how big your box was to begin with you may want to make it taller or wider to get it to a good fireplace size. Step by step instructions.

You can find them at hobby or office supply stores and home centers.