Our Edwardian house has an odd feature in the main bedroom, where an old fireplace has been moved onto a new stud wall. So it's completely non-functioning and has been painted white, boarded up with plywood and (we think) set too high. It also has the wrong fender. The photos will help explain it. The yellow hearth tiles have not been moved and remain in what is now a large wardrobe behind the fireplace.
We are slightly at a loss what to do. We don't need to use it as a fireplace, but we would like it to look more like one!
I have read all the threads on here about stripping paint off metal fire surrounds and we are probably up for that. But the white plywood and the odd height and the missing hearth all seem more problematic. There isn't room for a full hearth, even if we managed to prise the old tiles up, and anyway the whole thing looks too high to easily put a hearth underneath.
Any advice, ideas would be much appreciated. We're having the wardrobe behind fitted out with shelves and drawers in a few weeks, which may then make it harder to make changes.
We are slightly at a loss what to do. We don't need to use it as a fireplace, but we would like it to look more like one!
I have read all the threads on here about stripping paint off metal fire surrounds and we are probably up for that. But the white plywood and the odd height and the missing hearth all seem more problematic. There isn't room for a full hearth, even if we managed to prise the old tiles up, and anyway the whole thing looks too high to easily put a hearth underneath.
Any advice, ideas would be much appreciated. We're having the wardrobe behind fitted out with shelves and drawers in a few weeks, which may then make it harder to make changes.