The Fireplace Accent Wall is Finished!
Honestly, I would love to lay out a beautiful step-by-step tutorial on this wood feature for you, but David and I are not woodworkers. We had a solid idea of how it was going to work, but we made tons of mistakes along the way, and we don't have the widest range of tools that would have made some of these steps easier. However, we are thrilled with the way it turned out which is all that really matters. Last time I checked in, we were here: If you missed the other updates, you can check out how we painted the wall , German smeared the fireplace, and built these floating shelves . I'll try to lay out my thought process in designing the wood feature behind the TV. I knew I wanted a chevron pattern, and I knew I wanted it to float off the wall a little bit so that we could hide the cords for the TV. We started with poplar, the same wood we used for the floating shelves. I eyeballed an angle that I liked and that left us enough width to stretch across the entire width o
