How to Build a Fireplace Display

A fireplace display is a fun and festive way create a holiday center in your home, and creating one out of boxes that you have is an absorbing family project. Make your own fireplace display out of cardboard boxes and tape rather than stone or masonry, and take it down again after the holidays. A fireplace display gives your home a cozy look quickly and easily.

4 18-inch square boxes
Masking tape
Acrylic paint
Paper plate
Rectangular sponge
Garment boxes

Instructions

- 1
  Close the top on four 18-inch square boxes, while leaving one flap open.
- 2
  Stack one box on top of another with the flaps opening to one side and tape the boxes together with masking tape.
- 3
  Repeat Step 2 on the other two boxes.
- 4
  Tape the flaps of the boxes together. From the top, the boxes look like a staple with the boxes themselves acting as the legs and the flaps that have been taped together connecting them. This is the hearth of the fireplace.
- 5
  Mix red acrylic paint with a small amount of black acrylic paint on a paper plate
- 6
  Use a rectangular sponge to put “bricks” on the boxes with the paint you mixed. Stamp the boxes using the sponge to create regular rows of bricks.
- 7
  Tape two garment boxes together end to end. This is the mantel, which rests across the top of the hearth.
- 8
  Paint the garment boxes a flat gray.
- 9
  Secure the garment boxes across the top of the hearth with tape.
- 10
  Push the fireplace display against the wall.

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