A slight adjustment

As soon as I posted the photos of my Christmas decorations last week I noticed the distinct lack of anything remotely attractive in my fireplace! 

When we painted our living room I took a scrubbing brush to the fire place and completely cleaned it out.  It was as clean as a 100 year old fireplace could be - but wow, not attractive!

So I wanted to come up with both a festive and long term solution to my ugly problem so I decided to go with the classic solution - Wood, it seemed right - it seemed natural, so I went with it! 

Grabbing some wood we still had stacked in our back yard after we removed the rather large, horrible tree in our back yard.  I gave them a little blast of white spray-paint - not too much as I still wanted the "wood look", but I didn't want too much of the "wood look" - You know what I mean right??    

And the solution was found. 

I am thinking it also needs a little tweak with some Pot Black but that is for another season!