We've recently bought a house ( well 6 months ago ) and are finally getting round to doing some work on it :) it hasn't been touched since the 70s so you can imagine the decor :(

We're doing the main bedroom first which like every other room in the house has a boarded up fireplace in it which we assumed would just have a hole behind it :( but when we pulled the panel off the front it revealed a completely intact lovely victorian fireplace :) well lovely apart from the dead bird.

So off we rushed to every other room to rip the fronts off all the others and their all intact apart from 1 which is missing its grate :( but we've got 6 lovely fireplaces which we never thought we had :)

Steve

What a win! You lucky thing - they're worth quite a bit now, and terribly fashionable again!
:)

You lucky so and so :)
I think theyre gorgeous :)

What a find Steve.  They are worth a bit and I can't imagine why anyone would want to cover them up :(.

Michelle

Lol I would! :-D

There are 3 left in our house - the two upstairs in the bedrooms have been painted white several times over - but that's okay with me they match the decor that way! :-)

The one in the dining room is horrible - the flowery patterened tiles are disgusting and when we moved in I said "that's coming straight out".  A collective gasp of horror went around my relatives followed by a short pause where you could almost hear their brains ticking over then a collective offer of "well if you get rid of it, let me know, I'll have it".

It was then I discovered how valuable they are and hence, it is still firmly in place, 3 years later ;-)

eBay! :D :D :D

It's what I'd do lol.

No I couldn't do that, they've been there for 120 years i'd feel terrible :( and i've spent all afternoon scrubbing them :) and they were a much nicer find than the woodworm :)

Steve