This might be one of the more random posts on my blog. Thank goodness I have a “completely random” category just for this reason! While my Seattle pictures are uploading, I’m going to talk about my mantle. (Or mantel if you are feeling Middle English).

You see, when we purchased our home July of last year, we discovered a new oddity: the illusive mantle on mantel. Unlike, Pizza! Pizza!, it wasn’t a good thing.

And we TRIED to love it. We even tried to give it a second chance at life by painting it brown.

But it just wasn’t rocking our world.

So then came James with scaffolding.

And Nathan with the chisel.

And then there was this sexy beast of a fireplace in its place!

We traded in the gas logs for tempered black glass in the color Midnight Black.