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decoenthusiaste Yes it did!

Maria Billingsley of J Hettinger Interiors Fun!

Carolina Photo To Go LLC Orange is Clemson University's color and since I got my Master's there, I will applaud!!

Tim Bailey Ha! That's where my wife's degree is from and one of rhe reasons she picked it!

eztia I am happy the orange color turned out so well! You have a lot of fun, contemporary options for the room now, that you would not have had if the fireplace was a typical brick color.

orangecamera ORANGE! Looks fantastic :)

Barbara Griffith Designs I love it!

mpoulsom love it!

olldbobbi orangecamera, I KNEW you'd weigh in on this! It does look great, doesn't it :))

orangecamera olldbobbi, I've been up to my eyeballs moving and unpacking and rearranging and re-rearranging for the past week or so....and only come up for air once in a while to look at houzz. When I saw this one, I just couldn't resist. :)

olldbobbi Moving is a nightmare!!! I told our Realtor last year that this was IT, and if I have to move again they're going to have to take me out feet first :)) I can sympathize, I really, really can.

carmellalv Tell your wife Great job on the color! Love it.

janishill Love, love, love it!

lefty47 HI --- Always listen to the wife !!! Nice job !

Emily Hurley LOVE IT!!!

Interiors International, Inc. It was definitely an improvement.

Lawrence Adams Const. & Melindas Interior Designs The psychology of the color orange gives the feeling of good health. Like the color but the mantle needs to be heavier to balance out the scale of the brick and intensity of the
color.

Jayme Hobbs Wow, big difference, looks better with your style! It's a winner, good job!!

Robin Seefahrt get some white ceramic art glass and go to town!!

Kerstin Dieterich Designs What an improvement! It did not break the bank either..

cinbob soooo much better..

JWinteriors Where did the vents go?

panjatty That's what I want to know, too! Where are the vents?

Carolina Photo To Go LLC You just need photography of Tillman Hall to go above the fireplace. And, if you are not close, I just happen to have high def photography of it in my files! Love that your wife went to Clemson!

Tim Bailey We bricked the vents up. And I would love to have some hi def pics of Tilman!

Tim Bailey Oh, and I haved added a thicker solid oak mantle. I just haven't had a good time to take any pics of it.

centaurita Wow, what a difference! I usually hate when people paint natural wood or brick, but this has changed my mind a bit :) Glad your wife picked orange, it shows she has courage, and taste.

Robin Straub A darker stain on the hearth and maybe a but longer would balance off the mantle

marthafish That was brave. But it looks really nice