{"id":1689,"date":"2018-07-30T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2018-07-30T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:18:37","slug":"slightly-askew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/30\/slightly-askew\/","title":{"rendered":"Slightly askew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The file on our master bedroom fireplace was finished last week.\u00a0 Other than the decorative tile pattern, do you notice anything strange about the fireplace?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1690\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1984-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1984-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1984-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1984-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the answer is no, then that is good.\u00a0 When the fireplace contractors were installing the fire box, they ran into the exhaust stack from the fireplace below, which prevented them from centering this fire box.\u00a0 So, without letting us know, they cut the framing and set the firebox off-center.\u00a0 There are 2 1\/2 inches more to the right of the fireplace opening than to the left.<\/p>\n<p>We puzzled over this for some time, and finally decided to mix in a different color to create a decorative pattern, in the hope of optically hiding the difference on the sides.\u00a0 From looking at it myself, it appears to be successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The file on our master bedroom fireplace was finished last week.\u00a0 Other than the decorative tile pattern, do you notice anything strange about the fireplace? If the answer is no, then that is good.\u00a0 When the fireplace contractors were installing the fire box, they ran into the exhaust stack from the fireplace below, which prevented<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/30\/slightly-askew\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Slightly askew<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fireplaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}