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Holiday How-To: Create a Faux Fireplace Anywhere.

by on Dec 7, 2009

Attention contemporary apartment dwellers and those living south of the Mason-Dixon line! You, too, can celebrate the fun and festivities of the holidays by the warmth of a roaring fire.

Well, at least by the feel of a roaring fire.

Er, the look of a roaring fire?

Instructables member Pinemom created an entire mantle/hearth/blaze fireplace feel under her breakfast bar, perfect for hanging stockings with care. The photos are a little uninspiring, but the technique is solid, and can be easily translated to make sense in whatever non-fireplace having abode you inhabit.