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Wooderson

Wooderson

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We just started the demo of some parts of our living room today. Took out a floor to ceiling built in entertainment center and replaced it with a flat wall that we will now wall  mount a TV. This added some square footage as well as made the room feel more open. 

After doing this our gas two sided fireplace seems a little out of place. The fireplace is 5 feet tall "10 foot ceiling" and provides a half wall divider between the living room and dinning room.

My question would it be a terrible idea to just remove this fireplace and get a more open area. Besides the added square footage it would also provide some great views to our backyard. Downside some people think it's crazy to ever remove a fireplace. 

Oh I have until tomorrow morning to decide.

PS In the market for a 75-80 inch TV

I'll hang up and listen.

 
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Wooderson said:
We just started the demo of some parts of our living room today. Took out a floor to ceiling built in entertainment center and replaced it with a flat wall that we will now wall  mount a TV. This added some square footage as well as made the room feel more open. 

After doing this our gas two sided fireplace seems a little out of place. The fireplace is 5 feet tall "10 foot ceiling" and provides a half wall divider between the living room and dinning room.

My question would it be a terrible idea to just remove this fireplace and get a more open area. Besides the added square footage it would also provide some great views to our backyard. Downside some people think it's crazy to ever remove a fireplace. 

Oh I have until tomorrow morning to decide.

PS In the market for a 75-80 inch TV

I'll hang up and listen.
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Keep the fireplace. Mount an HD projector and get a 120" tv for half the money

 
I would be reluctant to get rid of a wood burning fireplace because it's more desirable for resale and removing a chimney is a big PIA, but a gas fireplace can be installed in pretty much any room if you have a gas line to it.  That fireplace in particular just seems in the way, ugly, and not useful, so I would get rid of it, but that doesn't mean you can't put a more appropriate/modern one somewhere else in the living room if you want.

 
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offdee said:
Looks like a bad last minute add on to the room and no flow whatsoever.  Demo it. 
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I would have had that taken out the day after I got the keys to the house. 

I don't know if you have any plans to sell the place anytime soon but I imagine having that in there could turn away interested buyers, so use this as an easy opportunity to get ahead of that.

 
That fireplace definitely has to be moved.  Another 2 feet away from the wall into the middle of the room would be perfect.

 
Can you sell it? Lots of secondary market sites that you could list it on and maybe get some money and have them haul it away. Or just have someone haul it away. 

 
Wooderson said:
Well that settles it. The fireplace will be demoed today. 

Our plan now is to add a fireplace to another wall “not pictured” This will be a standard one sided fireplace. Will be more our style and best of all not in the way. 

Now on to TV

https://m.costco.com/Samsung-75"-Class-(74.5"-Diag.)-4K-Ultra-HD-LED-LCD-TV.product.100349458.html

leaning towards this one 
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Agree with the choice to get rid of it.  Add something somewhere else in the room that ties in better.  Can't help on the TV.  Can't see the price without signing in, but considering its Costco, its probably a decent deal.

Need a better picture of the whole wall.  All I am seeing is the small area where it will go.  Can't really tell how it would look.

 
Not sure if you've done this before, but if not do a little research on the optimum TV mounting height. Most people mount TV's way too high.

 
Caesar said:
Agree with the choice to get rid of it.  Add something somewhere else in the room that ties in better.  Can't help on the TV.  Can't see the price without signing in, but considering its Costco, its probably a decent deal.

Need a better picture of the whole wall.  All I am seeing is the small area where it will go.  Can't really tell how it would look.
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$2000

 
avoiding injuries said:
Can you sell it? Lots of secondary market sites that you could list it on and maybe get some money and have them haul it away. Or just have someone haul it away. 
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I pulled the gas insert out of my basement.  It is currently sitting in the garage until I can figure out where to post and sell it.

 
belljr said:
I hate tvs over fireplaces - it sucks
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Ugh. Yeah. I guess if it's a more formal living area and the TV is a secondary use ... AND you have no other options. But for actually watching TV, get that sucker down.

 
Worm said:
Not sure if you've done this before, but if not do a little research on the optimum TV mounting height. Most people mount TV's way too high.
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I made this mistake. I have been too lazy to correct it since it is a TV we barely use. Wasn't until the first time I was watching football on it that I was like wtf, this thing is way too high, at least a foot.  

 
Foosball God said:
I pulled the gas insert out of my basement.  It is currently sitting in the garage until I can figure out where to post and sell it.
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My town has a “swap” site and my wife has been really successful getting stuff sold/rid of on FB Marketplace. 

We had a basketball hoop in the driveway that we no longer wanted and I didn’t feel like bringing it to the dump. It was in good shape, so she posted it “for free” with one picture and got so many responses. It was gone the same day. 

 
avoiding injuries said:
My town has a “swap” site and my wife has been really successful getting stuff sold/rid of on FB Marketplace. 

We had a basketball hoop in the driveway that we no longer wanted and I didn’t feel like bringing it to the dump. It was in good shape, so she posted it “for free” with one picture and got so many responses. It was gone the same day. 
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Seems risky to "swap" on a FB marketplace. FB and discretion don’t go well together.  :excited:

 
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