Box of bits

We visited the charity shop Emmaus last year when we first arrived, and one of the things we found was a box of old wooden carved decorations. We think they probably came off an old bookcase or dresser. Brian thought they would come in useful at some point so bought them for ten euros, not really knowing what he’d use them for. I have my eye on the wooden box, I know just where I can use that.

When we started decorating the Magnum we both felt the fireplace was missing something but were not quite sure what. Brian remembered the box of bits he’d bought and we started to consider how we could possibly use them. The challenge was that they were all cut with angles on their edges and not quite wide enough for what we wanted. Ideally we had thought they would look good at the top of each of the side pillars but they didn’t fit.

After a few days of revisiting the box and looking at what we had we could see that it may just be possible if we could join two pieces together on each side, but that would take some very careful cutting to make it work. Brian was up for the challenge, so took the time to carefully cut away by hand what was needed and join two pieces each side to fit. He now needs to seemlessly fit them to the fireplace to make them look like they have always been there.