Here's a sampling of pictures from my most recent work, a custom hearth space between living room and kitchen, built around an already-built cinder-block chimney. On the kitchen side, the big soapstone stove is set up on a raised hearth at a nice angle, with a green-granite counter just above it. On the living room side there is a gas fireplace/heater, adding to the warmth of the space with heat and fire-light. The kitchen, living room, and dining room were all transformed by this project, creating a much warmer feeling for the house, figuratively and literally.
How do you attach a wood post to brick and stone?
Nice firewood storage.
Inspired by Gaudi
The kitchen stove on it's new pad
Bring the wood
Living room side
The brick mantle with arch
Greetings! everyone, here are some pictures from 2009's big project out in Wolcott, Vermont. These are the last ones I took before my camera stopped working, and the work has since been completed and cleaned up, and a lot more progress was made with the rest of the house. So I'll be hoping to get some better pics when a new camera comes into my life. The picture above is the first fire in the semi-circular double-bell (masonry heater) that sits slightly above and back-to-back with the Rumford fireplace you will see in the pictures below. This project also includes a hearth for a wood-burning cookstove and hookups for small wood stoves into the chimney upstairs, one in each bedroom. Essentially, it is a huge tower right in the center of a 12-sided home.
Michael's first hand-built semi-circular double-bell masonry heater 
Nothing like cooking with wood fire too!
What you'd see (before finished floor) from the kitchen, or from the hearth of the fireplace.
Wish I could keep it!
In one of the 2 Bedrooms
Chimney top.
over the fireplace arch
finally some real sq. footage on the stone work
getting ready for the arch
my first 'convex' arch!
Bluestone bench top
Convex stone bench front
Rumford Fireplace Guts
Bell 1
Bell 1 and bell 2
The Center 
