Make Your Own Fireplace Out Of Boxes

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Make your own fireplace out of boxes.

You can find them at hobby or office supply stores and home centers. Roll out 130 inches of the brown craft paper. 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. Step by step instructions.

Then start painting on your faux bricks using the sponge. 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. Then tape the sides and back seams together. 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.

Christmas without a fireplace just doesn t feel complete. You can make your own out of some 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.

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.