Building out a fireplace

How to frame and finish a built-in electric fireplace with drywall. Follow this step-by-step tutorial for custom and beautiful results!

Learn how to build a DIY fireplace surround on a wall with an electric fireplace insert! A budget friendly way to add character to a room!

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you a step by step guide to building your own gas fireplace surround. This particular design surrounds 3 sides of a fireplace, as opposed to just a mantle above a fireplace. This DIY fireplace surround would work great with a gas fireplace

Want to build DIY fireplace built ins? See the play-by-play of how our craftsman style built ins were created using MDF, white paint, stone & marble tile.

Thanks for all of your sweet comments on my Fireplace Makeover Reveal yesterday. I wanted to hug all of your necks! We (mostly Cy) worked so hard on that fireplace surround, so it was great for us to read all the great positive feedback. I felt like y’all were giving us a bunch of “high fives”, and it was awesome. If you came to my house to see the fireplace in person, you and I would look something like this… And then we would go get a Coke at McDonald’s to celebrate, and probably eat…

How to frame and finish a built-in electric fireplace with drywall. Follow this step-by-step tutorial for custom and beautiful results!

Show them you care by building any of these beautiful fireplaces!

And it’s easily reversible, too.

An update of Cyndy from The Creativity Exchange's design projects.

I'm sharing our brick fireplace makeover. What was once a really dated fireplace, is now updated and fresh thanks to paint and new trim work.