How to build an electric fireplace, with no previous experience 🔥

Over the last few weeks my friends James, Emily & Manu 🐶 and I have been working on building an electric fireplace in their living room, and I’m so proud of how it turned out!!!
If I’m being honest I was pretty intimidated by this project. I’ve never built anything this big before and there was SO much planning (eww math lol) involved in getting this to work, but just because a project is intimidating doesn’t mean it is impossible!
I really enjoyed working with this DIY team, learning from our mistakes together, and creating something really unique for their home!
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[@carrierussell9224]

Beautiful job! Kudos to all of you, and snuggles to Manu. He's a good supervisor!

[@dawsondiy]

Thank you!

[@samuelfamily1252]

Honestly I just need that backyard grass in my life. How? Is that even real grass?

[@nursebecky2006]

WOW! JUST WOW!

[@annealston4858]

Really cool. Great job.

[@sharonbegay4458]

😊I have Used the wood tape. It's easy if u wrap the foil on the iron to protect it from glue.

[@taulce1]

May I possibly get the plans for this build? I’d very much appreciate it.

[@davionriley]

This is Awesome, what program did you use to create your plans

[@dawsondiy]

I actually just drew them on Adobe Illustrator haha nothing too fancy!

[@THEATREGOD3]

I like it but where how are you wearing it where are the speakers going how are you going to wire them how are you getting signal to the TV secret panel which isn't going to get you there if you have to fix something or plug in something TV might be Wi-Fi but it takes less strain on your modem or router I would just think of some kind of network option is all in an access panel that's a little easier to get to it's a beautiful wall but considered trimming it out otherwise I love the other thing is you might want to figure out how to dampen down that Sound Chamber

[@avarageplayer200]

What is the name of that flank you guys use?

[@raymondchow8722]

Counting the 6 inch shiplap, your TV is like 60 inches off the floor. It's one thing to make the TV look proportional to the 11 feet raised ceiling. I think you may have a bad time watching this TV. I understand it's personal, I just hope people watching this comprehend the height of the TV before doing this on their own.

[@Utuveand0]

A little TO MUCH annoying talking talking talking talking.. 😓
😂🤣😂🤣😂