My partner & I purchased a house that had a attractive outdated fireplace, however i fell in love with the outdated mantle, & I could not understand why anyone would have such a attractive fireplace in such a ratty outdated house, then my partner told me it was the fireplace of the era & then he told me the history of the house.
- I could imagine the balls that were held back then.
I could picture the candles on the huge chandeliers over the ballroom, when I asked him how he knew the history of the house! He told me it was a house that he said he would own one afternoon. His great Grandmother once lived here, & it was her family home, and after buying the house, we wanted to put it back to his original splendor. I asked if we were going to make the fireplace a working fireplace. My pal and I were looking outside, but we could not find a chimney for the fireplace. I thought they may have closed it off, but there was no chimney. My pal and I got an architect to look at the house, & he said we were right, they had taken the chimney down, & the fireplace was now just for show. I was okay with that & said I would put a fireplace insert into the hearth. As long as I could keep the fireplace, I will leave it as is. Once all the updates were made & the house was looking like it did when it was new, we planned a party. The only swings we made were that there are flicker lights where there were once candles, & a fireplace insert in the fireplace.