The fireplace was a small tricky.
Built in cabinets around fireplace plans.
If your unit spans the fireplace make sure the base cabinets are level with each other so that the mantel and the header will be straight.
That changed this year when my wife decided it would be acceptable to mount a 60 inch flat screen over the mantle where a painting had been.
Adding these bookcase carcasses really made a difference in my diy built in cabinets around my fireplace.
To build the face frame for the bookshelves i used 1x3s made from poplar and pine pine because they kept running out of poplar at the store i measured the distance from the top to the bottom and then the space in between.
It s important to be aware that power is paramount.
I had been wanting to build a bookcase around our fireplace ever since we built this house nearly 20 years ago but there was always some other project that took priority.
Here is the play by play in photographs of how it all came together and the general steps.
Build the mantel the length of the fireplace and 11 inches deep and face it with a piece of molding to give the mantel weight.
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