Fireplace Mantel

We finally stained our fireplace mantel! Wahoo!! We had our house builders put in a "blonde wood" mantel because they would have charged us an additional $3,000 to stain it the same as our cabinets. Yeah right! Stain costs like $10!!! So, we lived with a mis-matched fireplace for a couple weeks and it finally drove me crazy enough to actually crack open the stain & paint it. (Ok well Jared did most of the staining because it strongly advised against pregnant women breathing the fumes) A couple days and $20-ish dollars (dropped stain can, remember?) a whole new matching mantel! Eat that $3,000!! Haha =>

(& the only pic I have of the new mantel is with some Christmas decorations. Maybe later I will get one of the plain mantel)