Today I am sharing how my friends gave their fireplace a complete makeover! They took their dated 1990’s wood burning fireplace with green marble and turned it into a beautiful modern gas fireplace! This was the starting point of the dated fireplace. It all needed to go. The first step was to remove all the surrounding stone and existing drywall. Next step was to take out the wood stove and replace it with a modern gas fireplace insert. They used three items to fill in the drywall seems: drywall joint tape, flat scraper and drywall premixed mud. Next they dry fitted their new hand scraped fireplace mantel (purchased from Amazon…
