Brown painted fireplace brick

Happy Happy Friday everyone!! Here are a few pictures of the work we did on this house this week: These are the before pictures of the fireplace; don't be fooled this is actually painted to look like brick! They literally painted the bricks a brick color and painted all of the spaces in between gray! That must have taken forever!! Primed and ready to go! Here we are, hard at work...Macy is such a help haha! Almost done!!! Just for the record, painting a fireplace is not very fun and I hope…

When I first shared our brick fireplace makeover DIY project, it quickly became our most popular “around the house” blog post. Since then, I continue to get questions and comments that I’d like to add to this updated article. Back in 2022, we moved into our mountain home and quickly knew the existing fireplace had […]

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