To continue with my compulsion for complicated gingerbread houses, this year I drafed a 1/4 inch scale model of a fireplace and chimney, the inside and outside. Each brick in the chimney was cut individually and hand placed and icing-cemented, just like real brick.
The initial front elevations |
I baked a large sheet of gingerbread and cut out bricks to scale |
The floor and first layers of the fireplace |
The first few layers |
The chimney grows |
An aerial view |
A front view |
Me cutting out more bricks |
Misty wants to help |
Experimenting with sugar glass and a blow torch |
I even scorched the floor of the fireplace with the blowtorch |
I needed a little extra support for the stairsteps where the fireplace narrows to the chimney |
Aerial view |
Closeup: The Stairsteps |
The outside |
We tried to make curved sugar glass |
Flames made of colored & broken sugar glass pieces, dried apricots, colored icing, and pretzles for logs |
The mostly-finished fireplace |
The carpet is graham cracker with blue floret icing |
Closeup: blue icing carpet |
The fireplace with the carpet |
The brick ledge in front of the fireplace |
Another angle |
Closeup: carpet & fireplace floor |
With fire in the fireplace |
The pretzel woodpile with tarp |
The outside lawn, made with green floret icing |
Bushes & gingerbread men lawn decorations |
The tree is made of 4 gingerbread pieces icing-glued to a central pretzel trunk |
The decorated tree with candy presents |
The solid chocolate mantel |
The decorated mantle with stockings |
What's a fireplace without a kitty on the mantle? |
Orange candy tabby |
snoozing on the ledge |
The finished fireplace with sugarglass firescreen |
Front view |
Closeup: Tree & presents |
Closeup: Tree & presents |
Closeup: sideview of tree |
Closeup: Tree & presents |
Closeup: Kitty & stockings on the mantle |
Closeup: Orange Tabby |
Closeup: Sugarglass Firescreen |
Closeup: Fire |
Inside View |
Side View |
Inside Angle |
Outside Angle |
Aerial View |
A peek through the chimney at the fire below |
Outside View |
Closeup: Bushes & Gingerbread Men Lawn Decorations |
Closeup: Bushes & Gingerbread Men Lawn Decorations |
Closeup: Bushes & Gingerbread Men Lawn Decorations |
Closeup: Snowman |
Closeup: Pretzel Woodpile & Tarp |
Side View of Snowman and WoodPile |
Outside Angle |
Closeoup: Upper Outside of Chimney |
Sideview |
Another Angle |
Inside Angle |
My favorite finished view |
Datan0de attacks the Gingerbread Fireplace! |