Well we have been working on different things around our house; painting, changing light fixtures, and updating some things here and there. One of the things that has been bothering me is our fireplace. It is major focal point of our living room and I felt like it was this dark blob on the wall. A traditional fireplace - which is fine with us, but it just needed something new. So between checking out things at Lowes, the internet and Pinterest; I decided to paint the brick and give it a "facelift". The people in the paint department at Lowes are a wealth of knowledge; I often wonder how much training people get prior to working in their departments. Anywho, Abigail and I ventured off to Lowes to see what they told tell me about painting bricks. They were able to supply me with a nice primer and some useful tips. Now painting with a 1 year was not going to be happening here so I was able to tape off the area around and await for nap time.
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| before |
Once I got Abigail down for a nap, Anna and I went to work on the fireplace. I had to put 2 coats of the primer on the brick, as you can see from the picture above it was a rather dark red brick.
I sanded the wooden mantel with a very fine grade sandpaper. Then I painted over the already painted mantel, it was the same color as the rest of the trim used to be prior to the room redo. It was more of an antique white and we went with a "white" white. And I also got to down to business with painting the brick too. Again I did two coats of paint over the bricks.
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| Ta Da! the finished look |
Now what to do about the brick on the floor...
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