in trouble...

Well, I'm not the most popular guy in the house right now, but I did get the wood off the wall.



It took some drilling, some sawing, some prying and some pounding. Much of the problem was that the screws were anchored into something really tough- the brick, we assume. I ended up breaking most of them off.

The question now seems to be what to do with the area around the brick. The drywall job is pretty shoddy. Since a mantel was going in, it didn't matter, I suppose. It's not obvious in this picture, but the brick and the drywall are not aligned, so they aren't flush on this side.



I'm in favor of a thin wood border, essentially a frame, painted the same color as the wall, but Kassie's not going for it. I haven't given it a lot of thought, and I'm open to other ideas, of course. How hard would it be to fill in and clean up the edges with more drywall?