this whole project started with one idea: cooking food in a large cauldron over burning wood in a grungy, old, cottage-style fireplace and hearth.
I sat on this idea for what felt like ages. I had a rough idea of how I wanted it to look but kept putting it off due to a lack of confidence. After a few months of mulling over the details I was still struggling to commit.
Then I received a parcel in the post and the box was the perfect size for a one room cottage, so my idea began morphing into more than just my original idea. So just like that I started building the structure of the fireplace, which I then covered in wall filler. While this part was drying I started in the room.