Roll out 130 of the craft paper and start sponge painting your faux bricks.
Build a fake fireplace out of cardboard.
Several large sheets of sturdy cardboard probably at least 4 ft by 2 ft in size depending on your design.
Cardboard faux fireplace step 1.
Tape up the corners of a large cardboard box.
A hot glue gun glue sticks and or tape paint.
I used duct tape to secure the corners of a large cardboard box.
Depending on the look you re going for you may need brick red white brown for the mantelpiece gray for the.
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Tape all 4 18 18 boxes up leaving one flap open like this.
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How to make a cardboard fireplace you can cut out a big triangle to attach a chimney to your fireplace just like the one shown in the picture below.
Cut out a rectangle to leave space for the fire.
Use a box cutter to cut out a rectangle from one side of the.
Paint brushes a.
No fireplace in your apartment.
Make a christmas fireplace from cardboard santa claus sitting right on top of the fireplace along with the tree on its side sets in the perfect christmas mood.
Advertisement then i did a rough sketch of how i wanted my fireplace to look and took the cardboard back down and cut it out with an exacto knife and then cut a few attachable rectangles for swinging doors.
Flip the boxes on their sides and stack them to make the base of the fake fireplace and tape the sides and back.