Make Your Own Fireplace Out Of Boxes

Start with four cardboard display boards the kind students use for science projects.

Make your own fireplace out of boxes.

Christmas without a fireplace just doesn t feel complete. In the furnace must be put firewood. 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. You can make your own out of some cardboard.

Then start painting on your faux bricks using the sponge. 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. Roll out 130 inches of the brown craft paper. 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.

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. Turn the boxes on their sides and stack them up to make the fireplace base. This brought the total height up to four feet. You can find them at hobby or office supply stores and home centers.

Then tape the sides and back seams together.