"When Chad and his husband, Burger, first moved into their condo, in the living room there was a small patch of wall between two rectangular thresholds that connected to the kitchen and hallway. "I knew right away I wanted to arch the two entranceways into the living room and make them [an] equal size," Chad says."
"Because he had been taking ceramics classes, he eventually decided to try to make a ceramic tile center. 'I was inspired by bas relief tiles seen on other fireplaces and furniture, and decided to create some sculpted memories and figures that were meaningful to me and my husband,' he says. Chad glazed the tiles and did a preliminary bisque fire, and then his ceramics instructor, Julie Moon, fired them again."
Chad and his husband Burger transformed a small patch of wall between two thresholds into a fireplace focal point. They arched the entranceways to create symmetry and fitted a brown mantel found on Facebook Marketplace between them. The mantel required courier delivery and friends to install because of its weight. Chad, taking ceramics classes, sculpted and glazed custom bas-relief tiles depicting meaningful symbols, then completed bisque and final firings with instructor Julie Moon. A plywood arch initially filled the center while Chad hunted for an iron insert, and the handmade tiles serve as a personalized, technically temporary centerpiece.
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