Painting a brick fireplace
kknorton
My fireplace is a dark brownish colored brick and I'd like to update it. Does anyone have tips on painting a fireplace? I looked on HGTV and DIY but couldn't find much info.
dragonfly up in the sky
my first home had a brick wall, and when i began to paint it, everyone thought that i was crazy!!!i ended up painting a base colour (off white), then, i took a darker colour (sand), and kind of dry brushed it over, wiping away heavy paint spots. i got nothing but compliments on it... that was 14 years ago, and just last week, a friend of mine mentioned it, reminding me of how much she liked it!!!hope this helps!!!good luck!!!
UniquelyPainted
Hi - I am a faux painter but I have not done this before. About a month ago, I asked the teachers at the design school I take continuous learning courses on what's new in the industry about fireplace work because I have a client that asked about it. They said it is a delicate matter because of fire codes. There are only certain things and certain ways you can do things on a fireplace due to the fire codes. I would really check into the safety of materials before doing anything to a fireplace. If it were a plain brick wall, you wouldn't have to worry so much! Hope this helps!
cwright
We have a fireplace on our sunporch. After painting the walls and ceiling the yellow brick fireplace looked old and decrepid. My husband went to the dollar store and bought three cans of cheap white spray paint and spray painted the brick. It looks fabulous and quite natural!
lickalandis
Hey, I'm buying my first house and I have a very drab looking fireplace thata takes up the entire wall- I know how you feel. There is a website that offers paint for brick so it shouldn't be a fire code issue if you were to order paint through them. It is http://www.brick-anew.com/?OVRAW=fireplace%20paint&OVKEY=fireplace%20paint&OVMTC=standardThis may be a costly project though. I also found an article in a home decorating magazine that was done by Candice Olson- Devine Design on hgtv. In this article Candice used latex paint, a thick-nap roller and a thick brush to dresh up the fire place. According to the article, you will need to have many coats of paint becuase the brick is very porous. It also mentions that if you have a wood burning fireplace you will need to use a stain-block primer as your first coat so that soot does not show through. I hope that this helps. It helped me!
bemusedfeline
I've got a fireplace that is done in a kind of tan color, which really shows off the soot stains. I thought about just trying to clean the stains, but I'd just as soon get rid of that boring color. I am just not creative when it comes to ideas about painting and decorating. I look at all the books and suggestion folders they have with the paint in the store and always see great ideas; I'm just not sure they'd look so great when I got done with them. I guess I'm still trying to work up the courage to take the plunge.
memyselandi
Once i bought a small picture in a frame of a ww II vet a usmc vet. I opened the frame up because u hear stories of finding old papers etc. Low and behold there was a name on the back. It read Charles Fowler.......not weird yet right? Well guess what that's my first name and the last was my mothers maiden name.
shopsan
I live in a house where someone painted the brick fireplace. I once read in a decorating column that there's a special place in hell for people who paint brick. I wouldn't go that far, but once you do it, it's incredibly difficult to get the paint off again. Why not install a decorative wooden fireplace moulding over it?
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