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I have been lurking on this site since I started looking for a saw, but haven't posted much. I finally have a project to show off.
Over the past four years, the LOML and I have been renovating a 50's house we bought out of forclosure. We have redone quite a bit of it, but hadn't done the living/dining rooms until this summer. After repairing the plaster and painting the room, I made a new fireplace mantel and redid the hearth. The old mantel was a very simple 50's piece with shelving on each side that took up too much space and looked very dated. The hearth was nearly flush with the hardwood floor and was poured concrete stamped to look like 12x12 tiles. Where the oak met the concrete , it just butted against it without any type of frame. It just didn't look right. I installed new slate over the concrete and raised it up above the floor and bordered it with 5/4 oak. Along with the new mantel and hearth, we went with a plasma TV and hung it over the fireplace. I moved the electrical outlet up and added a second box for the AV wires. I also routed the AV wires (1 HDMI, 5 component, 1 pair of speaker wires, and one mini stereo extension wire for an IR repeater) though the wall and behind the mantel and into the basement where all of the components are located. I wanted the room to be free of any components, so I bought an IR repeater (can be seen above the TV if you look close) which allows everything to be out of sight of the remote controls.
Anyway, here are a few before and after pics of the fireplace. The before pics were taken the day we closed on the house, so the ugly track lighting was removed right away and the hardwood was refinished before we moved in. The furniture was removed in the after pics to show the fireplace better.
My new BT3100 did a wonderful job on this project. I made the mantel out of poplar and the hearth border from oak. I had a lot of rip cuts on both and it handled them with ease. I ripped the oak at an angle to make a sloped frame, so I had a fully raised blade and the cuts came out clean and straight.
I am now working on another woodworking project in the same room and will then build my AV component cabinet that will hang from the floor joists in the basement.
This board has been great and has really helped me with tool selections and inspiration.
Over the past four years, the LOML and I have been renovating a 50's house we bought out of forclosure. We have redone quite a bit of it, but hadn't done the living/dining rooms until this summer. After repairing the plaster and painting the room, I made a new fireplace mantel and redid the hearth. The old mantel was a very simple 50's piece with shelving on each side that took up too much space and looked very dated. The hearth was nearly flush with the hardwood floor and was poured concrete stamped to look like 12x12 tiles. Where the oak met the concrete , it just butted against it without any type of frame. It just didn't look right. I installed new slate over the concrete and raised it up above the floor and bordered it with 5/4 oak. Along with the new mantel and hearth, we went with a plasma TV and hung it over the fireplace. I moved the electrical outlet up and added a second box for the AV wires. I also routed the AV wires (1 HDMI, 5 component, 1 pair of speaker wires, and one mini stereo extension wire for an IR repeater) though the wall and behind the mantel and into the basement where all of the components are located. I wanted the room to be free of any components, so I bought an IR repeater (can be seen above the TV if you look close) which allows everything to be out of sight of the remote controls.
Anyway, here are a few before and after pics of the fireplace. The before pics were taken the day we closed on the house, so the ugly track lighting was removed right away and the hardwood was refinished before we moved in. The furniture was removed in the after pics to show the fireplace better.
My new BT3100 did a wonderful job on this project. I made the mantel out of poplar and the hearth border from oak. I had a lot of rip cuts on both and it handled them with ease. I ripped the oak at an angle to make a sloped frame, so I had a fully raised blade and the cuts came out clean and straight.
I am now working on another woodworking project in the same room and will then build my AV component cabinet that will hang from the floor joists in the basement.
This board has been great and has really helped me with tool selections and inspiration.
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