Make Your Own Fireplace Out Of Boxes

Roll out 130 inches of the brown craft paper.

Make your own fireplace out of boxes.

This brought the total height up to four feet. 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. 7 photos how to do it yourself. Step by step instructions.

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

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. In the furnace must be put firewood. Start with four cardboard display boards the kind students use for science projects. You can make your own out of some cardboard.

Turn the boxes on their sides and stack them up to make the fireplace base.