hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to the
workshop I love the look and feel of
sitting in front of a fireplace if you
don’t have one though it could be
thousands of dollars and a lot of
paperwork with the city to get one
installed if it’s possible at all
now the purpose of today’s video is to
come up with a substitute fireplace that
can go into any building with no
paperwork at all and for very little
cost some of you may be asking but why
because it’s cool plus I really love
building stuff that you can make it look
really cool this is a fancy decorative
piece that looks surprisingly good if
you do it well this project is going to
be broken up into two videos and the
first one we will build the structural
shape of the fireplace and in the second
one will do all the decorative bits that
make it look like a real brick
construction most of the materials we’ll
need are these sheets of foam core board
and these sheets of four millimeter
craft foam these foam core boards are 20
inches by 30 inches they are available
at a whole lot of different craft stores
and these ones actually by the dollar
store they are surprisingly one dollar
each so that’s pretty good price this is
the same stuff that we’ve used before
with our styro-slicer’ to make stuff
like this fighter jib these foam core
sheets often come in a variety of colors
white and black are the most common
we’re going with black just because it’s
a little bit easier to film these craft
foam sheets come in a variety of colors
and thicknesses we’re using the thickest
kind that I saw available
it’s 0.2 inches or about four
millimeters thick the color of these
foam sheets shouldn’t really matter
because they will be covered in paint
but I did get a couple that are fairly
close in color to the brick look that
we’re going to want to hold everything
together in this fireplace we’re also
going to need a good glue gun now that
we have all of our supplies let’s start
building to start let’s grab four pieces
of our foam core board that will become
the front and back of the fireplace
these boards are 20 inches wide and 30
inches tall we want to keep the 30 inch
height but we actually want to take one
inch off of each of our boards so that
our final fireplace is 30 inches tall
and 38 inches wide you may be wondering
why don’t we just leave it the full 40
inches wide so we don’t have to cut a 1
inch strip off the actual reason for
that is that the spacing of the bricks
will work out much nicer if it’s 38
inches wide instead of 4 you
[Music]
anytime we cut strips or pieces off of
our foam core don’t throw them away
because we can still use them later
we’re going to glue the edges of these
two pieces of foam core together and
those will become the front of our
fireplace the front of our fireplace
however is going to have an opening in
it so let’s draw and cut that out before
we glue the pieces together we’ll want
the whole opening to be twenty-two
inches wide which means we’ll take
eleven inches off of either side the
version of the fireplace that I’m
building will have a slight arch at the
top of it if you want to make a
different shape you’re welcome to do
that as well anything can work my
opening will be twenty-two inches wide
it will come up approximately seventeen
and a half inches at the sides and then
in the middle it will come up about two
inches higher than that to about
nineteen and a half maybe 20 inches I
have my two marks at 11 inches in so now
I’m just going to measure seventeen and
a half inches up from there and now a
mark in the center about two inches
higher somewhere around nineteen and a
half maybe 20 inches and now have the
two sides of my opening marked and where
the top of my opening will go so what I
need to do is draw a nice curved line
that connects the two sides running
through my 19 and a half inch mark in
the center now let’s take our ruler and
our razor blade and cut those pieces out
on the curve of course I can’t put a
ruler up against it so I am just gonna
have to freehand it with the razor blade
a little bit
with those two pieces cut out you can
now see the shape of the front of our
fireplace is starting to take once again
don’t throw away the pieces that you cut
out because we’re still going to use
them now those pieces are cut we’re
ready to glue the two halves of the
front of our fireplace together with our
glue gun let’s run a bead along the edge
of one board lay it down flat on the
table and press it flat and then press
the other board into it so the edges
line up perfectly clean away a little
bit of this glue if you do this while
the glue is too hot you will burn your
hands the fact that I’m wearing gloves
actually does help a little bit it
protects my fingers from the heat of the
glue we’ve now cut and glued the front
panel of our fireplace to make it a
little more structurally sound let’s add
some strips of foam core to the back of
it glued on to both sides this will
really help it keep its shape and
prevent it from cracking if there’s any
movement let’s use one of the 1 inch
strips that we cut off the side of our
panels and cut a few pieces four inches
long
with a front panel assembled let’s set
it aside and make the back panel the
process for the back panel is the same
as the front except we don’t cut out an
opening so let’s cut off one inch strip
from the sides and then glue it together
down the seam in the middle with the
last piece we use three strips of foam
core to reinforce the scene we want to
do the same thing on this side but we
need to make sure that those strips
aren’t going to be visible because it’d
be pretty ugly so let’s be careful about
where we put them laying the front piece
on top of the back piece we can see that
there’s a portion that will not be
visible and we can put our reinforcing
strips there let’s also put one down at
the bottom which will be used to help
build the bottom of the fireplace later
[Music]
there we have it now we’ve built the
back panel of the fireplace let’s go
back to the front panel and add some
side and support pieces for the side
panels let’s make them the same width as
these pieces that we already cut out
from the front as you recall these
panels are 11 inches wide since we’ve
used the entire height of the board of
the panel our fireplace is 30 inches
tall that means for our side panels
let’s cut out two pieces that are each
11 by 30 inches
[Music]
we now have our two side panels cut out
and we’ll also use these two pieces we
cut from the front as interior side
panels it’s going to be important that
all of our side panels are at a nice 90
degree angle from our front and back
panels so let’s cut a few angle pieces
that will help us keep those side panels
just the way we want them I’m making
some two inch squares that I’m then
going to cut diagonally to give us some
nice 90-degree angles now let’s secure
these right angle pieces to the backside
of our front panel with these glued down
when we attach our side panel we’ll have
a nice 90 degree guide to be sure that
it’s a line straight up and down
[Music]
with these pieces that we cut out of the
middle and are now using as interior
side pieces make sure that you have the
narrow end lined up with the size that
matches it you don’t want to take the
wide end and put that on the edge here
or you’ll have a lot of weird overlap
and you might be able to see the narrow
end through the back of the fireplace
just attach it as though over a door
that you cut off and is swinging over
that’s the first two panels attached and
now let’s attach the ones on the other
side with the edges attached to the
front of our fireplace we can now see
that it stands up on our own and we’re
getting a really good look at how it’s
going to come together now we need to
attach our back panel to our side panels
[Music]
the main body of the fireplace is
progressing really nicely so now let’s
add a floor right here this piece of
support on the back is actually going to
help hold up our floor let’s add a one
inch strip connecting these two front
points here and then we’ll have a panel
that goes on top of all of that before
we add our strip let’s cut out the shape
that we’re going to need for that panel
we could grab a new foam core board but
we have these two pieces that we cut off
of our side panels so to avoid wasting
too much material let’s use these to
make our floor one of these panels alone
isn’t deep enough to reach the back of
our board that’s 11 inches back and
these are only about 9 inches wide so
let’s glue these two pieces together and
then we’ll have a large enough board
that we can cut out the right size and
shape for the bottom of our fireplace
this piece should now fit nicely into
the space we’ve got we still have some
leftover 1-inch strips so let’s cut one
of those to be the right size to fit
right in this gap
[Music]
to start attaching our floor let’s just
run a bead along this support we have on
the back with the back little bit of
glue attached now let’s run a bead along
the front and press that down as well
now we have a couple inches in the back
and the whole front attached but our
sides and especially our back corners
are still very loose looking at the
bottom of the fireplace we can see how
that bottom panel isn’t very well
connected everywhere so what we want to
do is reinforce all along the edges to
make sure it really is holding itself up
well to reinforce it a little bit extra
in the corners let’s even take a couple
of one-inch pieces and glue those down
so it’s really getting support from the
sidewall as well
our bottom is now pretty well attached
but we are going to want it to hold a
little bit of weight so to add some
support let’s just take a few one-inch
pieces and glue those around those will
reach down from this panel on to the
floor where our fireplace is resting
there we have it the floor of the
fireplace is now really nicely attached
it’s stuck on both front and back all
the sides and it has some extra support
in the middle at this point the main
body of the fireplace is mostly complete
so what we need to do is add a top piece
a mantel that goes on top of the
fireplace when we made the front and
back pieces of our fireplace we trimmed
off one inch from either side of the
panels now we want to have a mantelpiece
that extends one inch over the edge
making the bricks fit was one reason to
trim down the edges this is the other
with a new piece of foam core we need to
cut out four panels that reach from the
middle of our fireplace out to one inch
beyond the edge we also want the mantel
piece to extend one inch beyond the
front of our fireplace so we need to
take a measurement that will take us
from the very back of the fireplace to
one inch beyond the front our side walls
we know are 11 inches but we also have
to account for the thickness of the foam
core itself currently our whole
fireplace is approximately 11 and 5/16
inches wide so now we need to cut four
pieces that are 20 inches long and 12
and 5/16 inches wide
pervert
three more of those now these four
pieces will become the top and bottom of
our mantle first let’s glue the edges of
two of the pieces together
[Music]
now one of these is bottom and one of
these is the top and to secure the two
together we want to take some 1 inch
strips and go all the way around one of
them and then attach the other one on
top of those
[Music]
[Music]
now before we secure the top piece onto
this bottom piece I want to do sort of
the same thing that we did with the very
bottom of the fireplace and that’s just
add a few little cross pieces to add a
little bit of structural support on to
our mantel
you know we’ve got the front attached
let’s try attaching the side
the front and the sides now let’s just
try and get a little bit onto the back
[Music]
there we go our mantelpiece is now
constructed and holding itself together
pretty well there is a couple little
bits of cleanup I want to do and I have
a little bit of a lip so I want to cut
that off so it’s nice and flush all the
way across this product
there we have it our mantle is now
complete and rests nicely on top of our
fireplace this whole part of the
fireplace has used seven pieces of the
foam core build since I bought them at
the dollar store that’s only seven bucks
for a whole fireplace not too bad we’re
not going to attach the mantel to the
body of a fireplace just yet we’re gonna
wait until we’ve added some more of the
decorative elements to the fireplace and
the mantel itself thanks for joining us
for this video join us tomorrow as we
finish up our fireplace and remember to
come gear yourself up with products and
merch at the king of random calm see you
there it only probably takes 20 to 30
seconds to cool down and after the point
we can let go of it but it still seems
like it takes a long time
[Music]
you
workshop I love the look and feel of
sitting in front of a fireplace if you
don’t have one though it could be
thousands of dollars and a lot of
paperwork with the city to get one
installed if it’s possible at all
now the purpose of today’s video is to
come up with a substitute fireplace that
can go into any building with no
paperwork at all and for very little
cost some of you may be asking but why
because it’s cool plus I really love
building stuff that you can make it look
really cool this is a fancy decorative
piece that looks surprisingly good if
you do it well this project is going to
be broken up into two videos and the
first one we will build the structural
shape of the fireplace and in the second
one will do all the decorative bits that
make it look like a real brick
construction most of the materials we’ll
need are these sheets of foam core board
and these sheets of four millimeter
craft foam these foam core boards are 20
inches by 30 inches they are available
at a whole lot of different craft stores
and these ones actually by the dollar
store they are surprisingly one dollar
each so that’s pretty good price this is
the same stuff that we’ve used before
with our styro-slicer’ to make stuff
like this fighter jib these foam core
sheets often come in a variety of colors
white and black are the most common
we’re going with black just because it’s
a little bit easier to film these craft
foam sheets come in a variety of colors
and thicknesses we’re using the thickest
kind that I saw available
it’s 0.2 inches or about four
millimeters thick the color of these
foam sheets shouldn’t really matter
because they will be covered in paint
but I did get a couple that are fairly
close in color to the brick look that
we’re going to want to hold everything
together in this fireplace we’re also
going to need a good glue gun now that
we have all of our supplies let’s start
building to start let’s grab four pieces
of our foam core board that will become
the front and back of the fireplace
these boards are 20 inches wide and 30
inches tall we want to keep the 30 inch
height but we actually want to take one
inch off of each of our boards so that
our final fireplace is 30 inches tall
and 38 inches wide you may be wondering
why don’t we just leave it the full 40
inches wide so we don’t have to cut a 1
inch strip off the actual reason for
that is that the spacing of the bricks
will work out much nicer if it’s 38
inches wide instead of 4 you
[Music]
anytime we cut strips or pieces off of
our foam core don’t throw them away
because we can still use them later
we’re going to glue the edges of these
two pieces of foam core together and
those will become the front of our
fireplace the front of our fireplace
however is going to have an opening in
it so let’s draw and cut that out before
we glue the pieces together we’ll want
the whole opening to be twenty-two
inches wide which means we’ll take
eleven inches off of either side the
version of the fireplace that I’m
building will have a slight arch at the
top of it if you want to make a
different shape you’re welcome to do
that as well anything can work my
opening will be twenty-two inches wide
it will come up approximately seventeen
and a half inches at the sides and then
in the middle it will come up about two
inches higher than that to about
nineteen and a half maybe 20 inches I
have my two marks at 11 inches in so now
I’m just going to measure seventeen and
a half inches up from there and now a
mark in the center about two inches
higher somewhere around nineteen and a
half maybe 20 inches and now have the
two sides of my opening marked and where
the top of my opening will go so what I
need to do is draw a nice curved line
that connects the two sides running
through my 19 and a half inch mark in
the center now let’s take our ruler and
our razor blade and cut those pieces out
on the curve of course I can’t put a
ruler up against it so I am just gonna
have to freehand it with the razor blade
a little bit
with those two pieces cut out you can
now see the shape of the front of our
fireplace is starting to take once again
don’t throw away the pieces that you cut
out because we’re still going to use
them now those pieces are cut we’re
ready to glue the two halves of the
front of our fireplace together with our
glue gun let’s run a bead along the edge
of one board lay it down flat on the
table and press it flat and then press
the other board into it so the edges
line up perfectly clean away a little
bit of this glue if you do this while
the glue is too hot you will burn your
hands the fact that I’m wearing gloves
actually does help a little bit it
protects my fingers from the heat of the
glue we’ve now cut and glued the front
panel of our fireplace to make it a
little more structurally sound let’s add
some strips of foam core to the back of
it glued on to both sides this will
really help it keep its shape and
prevent it from cracking if there’s any
movement let’s use one of the 1 inch
strips that we cut off the side of our
panels and cut a few pieces four inches
long
with a front panel assembled let’s set
it aside and make the back panel the
process for the back panel is the same
as the front except we don’t cut out an
opening so let’s cut off one inch strip
from the sides and then glue it together
down the seam in the middle with the
last piece we use three strips of foam
core to reinforce the scene we want to
do the same thing on this side but we
need to make sure that those strips
aren’t going to be visible because it’d
be pretty ugly so let’s be careful about
where we put them laying the front piece
on top of the back piece we can see that
there’s a portion that will not be
visible and we can put our reinforcing
strips there let’s also put one down at
the bottom which will be used to help
build the bottom of the fireplace later
[Music]
there we have it now we’ve built the
back panel of the fireplace let’s go
back to the front panel and add some
side and support pieces for the side
panels let’s make them the same width as
these pieces that we already cut out
from the front as you recall these
panels are 11 inches wide since we’ve
used the entire height of the board of
the panel our fireplace is 30 inches
tall that means for our side panels
let’s cut out two pieces that are each
11 by 30 inches
[Music]
we now have our two side panels cut out
and we’ll also use these two pieces we
cut from the front as interior side
panels it’s going to be important that
all of our side panels are at a nice 90
degree angle from our front and back
panels so let’s cut a few angle pieces
that will help us keep those side panels
just the way we want them I’m making
some two inch squares that I’m then
going to cut diagonally to give us some
nice 90-degree angles now let’s secure
these right angle pieces to the backside
of our front panel with these glued down
when we attach our side panel we’ll have
a nice 90 degree guide to be sure that
it’s a line straight up and down
[Music]
with these pieces that we cut out of the
middle and are now using as interior
side pieces make sure that you have the
narrow end lined up with the size that
matches it you don’t want to take the
wide end and put that on the edge here
or you’ll have a lot of weird overlap
and you might be able to see the narrow
end through the back of the fireplace
just attach it as though over a door
that you cut off and is swinging over
that’s the first two panels attached and
now let’s attach the ones on the other
side with the edges attached to the
front of our fireplace we can now see
that it stands up on our own and we’re
getting a really good look at how it’s
going to come together now we need to
attach our back panel to our side panels
[Music]
the main body of the fireplace is
progressing really nicely so now let’s
add a floor right here this piece of
support on the back is actually going to
help hold up our floor let’s add a one
inch strip connecting these two front
points here and then we’ll have a panel
that goes on top of all of that before
we add our strip let’s cut out the shape
that we’re going to need for that panel
we could grab a new foam core board but
we have these two pieces that we cut off
of our side panels so to avoid wasting
too much material let’s use these to
make our floor one of these panels alone
isn’t deep enough to reach the back of
our board that’s 11 inches back and
these are only about 9 inches wide so
let’s glue these two pieces together and
then we’ll have a large enough board
that we can cut out the right size and
shape for the bottom of our fireplace
this piece should now fit nicely into
the space we’ve got we still have some
leftover 1-inch strips so let’s cut one
of those to be the right size to fit
right in this gap
[Music]
to start attaching our floor let’s just
run a bead along this support we have on
the back with the back little bit of
glue attached now let’s run a bead along
the front and press that down as well
now we have a couple inches in the back
and the whole front attached but our
sides and especially our back corners
are still very loose looking at the
bottom of the fireplace we can see how
that bottom panel isn’t very well
connected everywhere so what we want to
do is reinforce all along the edges to
make sure it really is holding itself up
well to reinforce it a little bit extra
in the corners let’s even take a couple
of one-inch pieces and glue those down
so it’s really getting support from the
sidewall as well
our bottom is now pretty well attached
but we are going to want it to hold a
little bit of weight so to add some
support let’s just take a few one-inch
pieces and glue those around those will
reach down from this panel on to the
floor where our fireplace is resting
there we have it the floor of the
fireplace is now really nicely attached
it’s stuck on both front and back all
the sides and it has some extra support
in the middle at this point the main
body of the fireplace is mostly complete
so what we need to do is add a top piece
a mantel that goes on top of the
fireplace when we made the front and
back pieces of our fireplace we trimmed
off one inch from either side of the
panels now we want to have a mantelpiece
that extends one inch over the edge
making the bricks fit was one reason to
trim down the edges this is the other
with a new piece of foam core we need to
cut out four panels that reach from the
middle of our fireplace out to one inch
beyond the edge we also want the mantel
piece to extend one inch beyond the
front of our fireplace so we need to
take a measurement that will take us
from the very back of the fireplace to
one inch beyond the front our side walls
we know are 11 inches but we also have
to account for the thickness of the foam
core itself currently our whole
fireplace is approximately 11 and 5/16
inches wide so now we need to cut four
pieces that are 20 inches long and 12
and 5/16 inches wide
pervert
three more of those now these four
pieces will become the top and bottom of
our mantle first let’s glue the edges of
two of the pieces together
[Music]
now one of these is bottom and one of
these is the top and to secure the two
together we want to take some 1 inch
strips and go all the way around one of
them and then attach the other one on
top of those
[Music]
[Music]
now before we secure the top piece onto
this bottom piece I want to do sort of
the same thing that we did with the very
bottom of the fireplace and that’s just
add a few little cross pieces to add a
little bit of structural support on to
our mantel
you know we’ve got the front attached
let’s try attaching the side
the front and the sides now let’s just
try and get a little bit onto the back
[Music]
there we go our mantelpiece is now
constructed and holding itself together
pretty well there is a couple little
bits of cleanup I want to do and I have
a little bit of a lip so I want to cut
that off so it’s nice and flush all the
way across this product
there we have it our mantle is now
complete and rests nicely on top of our
fireplace this whole part of the
fireplace has used seven pieces of the
foam core build since I bought them at
the dollar store that’s only seven bucks
for a whole fireplace not too bad we’re
not going to attach the mantel to the
body of a fireplace just yet we’re gonna
wait until we’ve added some more of the
decorative elements to the fireplace and
the mantel itself thanks for joining us
for this video join us tomorrow as we
finish up our fireplace and remember to
come gear yourself up with products and
merch at the king of random calm see you
there it only probably takes 20 to 30
seconds to cool down and after the point
we can let go of it but it still seems
like it takes a long time
[Music]
you
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