DIY SHIPLAP FIREPLACE | WALL TRANSFORMATION

all right hey guys welcome back to my

channel so today we're gonna be doing a

little bit of a DIY I'll tell you what

that is here in a second as you guys

know I like to do a lot of sporadic DIYs

a lot of sporadic projects it's like 6

o'clock in the evening just got home

from work not too long ago and one of

the things that have been wanting to do

for a while is just to build a fireplace

and so I got Brittany on board she's

excited I'm excited so what we're gonna

be doing today is just building that

outline of the fireplace that we want to

build and we actually got this

inspiration off of somebody that Britney

follows on Instagram and she has a blog

post about it and so we'll put that link

below and so we're excited to get this

started and we hope that you guys are as

well and so you guys would like to

follow along on this DIY journey then

just keep watching

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alright hey guys so today me and my wife

have started our project of building our

electric fireplace as you can see we've

taped it out just so we know where the

fireplace is gonna go and we went and

picked up a couple items so what I've

got so far is ten two by fours and then

I grabbed 4 1 by 8 about 6 feet long

because that's how wide we want our

fireplace as you can see I already

screwed one in the wall right there

seeing the studs and it's really a good

idea to just kind of mark your wall up

you know the walls gonna be covered so

mark it up with where the studs are you

see I drew the lines where the studs

were all the way up that way whenever

I'm nailing boards onto the wall or

screwing boards onto the wall I know

exactly where the studs are it just

makes it a lot easier when we actually

get the supplies a couple of other

things I got I didn't have already was

just a electric nail gun because I don't

have an air compressor a couple Chargers

I got a skill saw and then I got an

impact driver to go with my screwdriver

alright guys so we have the four anchors

up and ready to go now we just need to

cut the two by fours to link and build

the skeleton and then put it up these

anchors are important because this is

gonna be basically the foundation of it

all we're not gonna be nailing any wood

to the floor or to the ceiling

just to the wall where where I set these

anchors at so once you get these strong

anchors in then you can go ahead and

start building the skeleton and I'll

show you guys what that looks like

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alright guys so after we get the anchors

on the wall the next step is to put

these frame walls up what we did was

just took four two by fours and cut them

to length you want to measure from the

floor all the way up to your ceiling and

then subtract I subtracted a

quarter-inch just so it wouldn't be

fully touching the ceiling and we'll

cover that crack up when we put the chip

flap up and the trim up so you won't

even see it so just two two by fours cut

to length side-by-side with some more

two by fours okay so that the hole depth

is about a foot is what we measure and

then you want to go ahead and secure

them to the anchors that you secured on

the wall so you need to do some research

on how deep your electric fire pit is

going to sit ours says about five and a

half inches so we went ahead and cut

this to about 10 inches just so we would

have some play with cords and whatever

else we needed to do we can make it

recess a little bit more so we've got

about 10 inches here just do some

research and see how deep your fireplace

sits and then the next step after this

is to build the front part of the

skeleton the front frame and that's what

we're going to be giving out and so to

do that you want to basically grab some

two by fours again you almost want to

cut it to length but you're going to

subtract about an inch and a half just

because when you buy two by fours they

normally come in one and a half by three

and a half inches so they kind of skimpy

right there but subtract a one and a

half inches from what this one is that

and then you're going to go ahead and

secure it to this side that side and

then I'll show you what we do that for

that we'll put it too much or on top

just to secure this front frame let's go

ahead and do that okay my assistants

come to help now we are going to nail

the frame together just so we can hold

it in place before we screw it in

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alright guys so we got the whole front

skeleton on as you can see side part of

the skeleton top in the middle and the

floor so something that I did that I

would suggest you do a little bit

differently is I went ahead and put me

outside of the front skeleton first and

then I kind of cut all the guts in while

this was already up and made it a little

more difficult go ahead and somewhat

like fiddle your your front frame pieces

make sure it fits good and then take it

down and assemble it on the floor and go

ahead and once you have it assembled on

the floor then you can lift it all up as

one piece and then I nail it into the

side frame that's the easiest way to do

it because this you know it like this I

can't go above and and screw this piece

in from the top so I have to screw in

from the sides which didn't have as

strong as a whole so but yeah I got the

whole front skeleton done the only thing

left after this is to get the fireplace

in and then put the drip flap on it's

actually a really easy project this part

I don't know about the shiplap I've

never put shiplap on I guess we'll see

but so far so good

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alright guys we're just about ready to

put the title on right now what we're

doing is building kind of the structure

where the tile is going to sit on

so the tiles gonna extend about three

inches from the fireplace it's matte

black tile so you guys here's matte

black three by twelve inch tile we

wanted to go with matte black because

our fireplace is not black edges and

around our TV is matte black as well so

it would just match and the top putting

tile around the blacks all around the

fireplace is just gonna make the

fireplace look a little bit bigger so

that the dimensions kind of match with

our TV so it's kind of even and then

once we put the mantel in it'll kind of

look symmetric so that's kind of what

we're going for now

so now we're just putting up this thin

three-eighths and board just so that we

can lay that tile on it so yeah that's

what we have so far so right now is

about three weeks past when we did all

this stuff we've been waiting on this

tile for a very long time Home Depot

didn't have it in stock those didn't

have it in stock but we finally got the

tile in so now we're gonna resume work

and hopefully this project gets done in

this well this weekend it's Friday today

so hopefully we get done with it by

Sunday or Monday at least alright guys

so we got the border around it done now

we're gonna lay some tile alright guys

so we finished our fireplace we haven't

gone stain the mantel yet but we're

gonna do that a little bit later on it's

a little late I'm about to have a pretty

busy work week so we're going to do that

later but we got peanuts all of it done

we stuck the painted white and cover up

some of these nail gun holes but overall

we're pretty much done obviously this

this project should have only taken two

weekends but we're waiting on this tile

to come in there's a lot of places I

didn't have it in stock so we had to

wait for them to get it in stock and

then once I got it in stock we need

pretty much got that mean we got the

ball rolling so this was our first

fireplace build

know what to expect when we went into it

but it looks exactly how we wanted it to

look in in that other beginning so I

guess that we have that normal course

altogether without excluding the TV was

about five hundred dollars roughly the

fireplace cost us roughly three hundred

dollars and then all the other woman's

buys cost us roughly two hundred dollars

so very cheap for a beautiful fireplace

again it puts out at that comforting

feeling in your living room and that's

what we were going for so I hope you

guys have enjoyed this video and I hope

that helps you out if you plan on

building a fireplace please give this

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