{"id":640,"date":"2010-02-19T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewle.com\/clients\/gingiber\/i-need-your-input-seriously\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:41:00","slug":"i-need-your-input-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"i need your input&#8230; seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hello my friends.<\/div>\n<div>Today, I will share with you my biggest home frustration: my chimney.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S33qZufQSzI\/AAAAAAAAAxo\/0xBCq_cwjsQ\/s1600-h\/IMG_0897.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S33qZufQSzI\/AAAAAAAAAxo\/0xBCq_cwjsQ\/s400\/IMG_0897.jpg\" width=\"335\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S33qnTfDadI\/AAAAAAAAAxw\/Q14tv0Ze35c\/s1600-h\/closeup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S33qnTfDadI\/AAAAAAAAAxw\/Q14tv0Ze35c\/s320\/closeup.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S33qv1r3gsI\/AAAAAAAAAx4\/G8xAjIW7BK8\/s1600-h\/cracks.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S33qv1r3gsI\/AAAAAAAAAx4\/G8xAjIW7BK8\/s320\/cracks.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>As you can see, my chimney was painted white&#8230; put due to a slow water leak, the paint, inside of the chimney, and surrounding flooring was destroyed. Can I tell you how sad this made me?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well, now we have fixed the leak (Lord willing), and are in the process of replacing the flooring. However, I really do not know what color to repaint the pealing chimney.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It will really take way too long to strip the fireplace. Plus, this room has like zero natural light (sad face&#8230;. you do not know how much I love windows). I really would love to paint it a pretty blue or gray, but really cannot trust my judgment. Every decision I have made for this house stylistically has just not worked.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I turn to you, readers. What color should I paint it. Do you have ideas or pictures of pretty fireplaces?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please email them to me at <span>gingiberdesign (at) gmail (dot) com. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks in advance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>Stacie<\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><a name=\"more\"><\/a><span><span>Update!<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span>Reader Allison sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theletteredcottage.net\/2009\/04\/my-82-fireplace-makeover.html\">link to blog &#8220;The Lettered Cottage&#8221;<\/a> for this DIY that I absolutely love! What do you think?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S362-JRqzfI\/AAAAAAAAAyA\/DBhR2PViEZ8\/s1600-h\/LR_before4.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S362-JRqzfI\/AAAAAAAAAyA\/DBhR2PViEZ8\/s320\/LR_before4.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span><span>before<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S363AafaxRI\/AAAAAAAAAyI\/heYJLt4jWJg\/s1600-h\/FP+2%5B6%5D.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S363AafaxRI\/AAAAAAAAAyI\/heYJLt4jWJg\/s320\/FP+2%5B6%5D.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span><span> after<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>I am really tempted to try this one out!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>-Stacie<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello my friends. Today, I will share with you my biggest home frustration: my chimney. As you can see, my chimney was painted white&#8230; put due to a slow water leak, the paint, inside of the chimney, and surrounding flooring was destroyed. Can I tell you how sad this made me? Well, now we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}