Winging It....

Now for the serious work...Back to the fireplace.

I started with just a curved, straight up  chimney, but that was just too much.

It took up too much of the space, visually.

So......

 I decided to make it more like the one in the original room.  The hard way.

Since I already had that piece cut, I decided to cut some pieces out of it in places to see if I could make it curved.

I probably could have if the material wasn't a quarter inch thick. 

I spent an hour experimenting with this.  Cut a slash out.  Try it in the space.  Repeat.  Repeat. Repeat. Just not what I had in mind.

Closer, but no cigar.

Then I decided , if all else fails, do it the old fashioned way.

I sent Zar to  the kitchen for a funnel.  He found one about the right size. 

I rolled that around on a piece of watercolor paper for a pattern and traced the edge and the neck.

From there, I cut it out and tried it....It worked.

Then I simply cut and rolled a tube for the chimney.

It takes up a lot less space and I am thinking that just a wall on that side to match the existing wall on the other end will be sufficient to complete the area.

I will probably try to make the shape a bit more graceful and curved, but I do have the basic shape now.  Not bad for a funnel.  I am going to make it so that the back of the fireplace itself can be removed, if need be. And I could still put a larger straight piece at the bottom to make the shape more like the original...We shall see.

This could take a while.  I am going back to work now.  Thanks to Zar and the funnel, the fireplace is coming together.

See you tomorrow.