I had a bad day at work and decided to take it out on my fireplace.
Oh well, no going back now. The fireplace is primed with one coat of Glidden Masonry & Stucco primer and still needs another coat. I removed the old vents and plan on installing some new fancy looking ones.
I still HATE the mantel. HATE HATE HATE and more HATE. I bought some really dark gray paint, and will test out a patch after the priming is done. I kind of dig the white though…
I’ve been obsessing about what to do with the fireplace. This is always bad news when I start focusing like a laser beam on a flaw in the house. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, all I see are fireplaces.
Here are some inspiration images that I’ve been thinking about…paint is a cheap and easy solution.
(via. Design*Sponge & Design*Sponge)
Below are some older shots of the fireplace after we refinished the floors and painted, but have yet to move in…notice the weird vents on the side. I HATE them and would like to make them disappear.
Just for kicks…
Right BEFORE we moved in and just AFTER. (It looks even worse now – like some sort of crazed flea market. What a mess!)
I think I want to take the leap and paint the brick. As is, it looks very traditional and the bricks do have some staining and paint on them already – I feel so guilty slapping paint on perfectly good brick that I need to justify. Also, that ugly mantel is very traditional, very very small and very very very boring.
Some more retro inspiration.
(via Sunset, Home Atlanta)
So any ideas? I’m leaning towards painting the brick a semi-gloss charcoal gray and beefing up the mantel and painting it a glossy white…and then stacking cut firewood inside the fireplace cause I’m super trendy.
