This is what it looked like before we began:
Last November:
Here's what we have today:
AHHHH! Sooo much brighter! J made the mantel using our old mantel shelf as a base. To that he added chunkier corbels (the bracket-looking things that the shelf sits on) and molding around the edges.
I'm still working on the mantel decorations...I'm not too good with that sort of thing so it takes me awhile :) I will admit that I'm WAY too excited about those two silver Pier One candle stick pillars...found them yesterday at Go*dwill for $3.99 ea!
