When we got married, we bought a new construction home. I love that everything was brand new, never used and a completely vanilla (as we often called it) blank canvas, just waiting for our touches. The downside to our purchase was that we found the house after the builder made a lot of decisions. So we weren't able to choose the cabinets, tile or fixtures. Since we know this house isn't our final destination, we don't want to go too overboard with making expensive changes that we'd never see a return on. The answer was to pick and choose what absolutely needed to go and bring in great furniture, fabrics and decorating to complement what was here. The current project? Our great room fireplace. The mantle has nice detail, but the builder put these heinous decorative medallions on it. As you can guess, bubbye. The inside of the fireplace was painted tan. Blah. The faux logs. Yuck. The beige marble surrounding it all. Ick. In an effort to Vanessa-ify it - the tile is being changed to stainless steel bricks, the medallions removed, the inside painted a bright white and the logs swapped for crystals.
I can't wait to show you pics of the finished product!
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