Before And After Painted Stacked Stone Fireplace

This was pretty fun because my friend rachel is usually a fearless diy er but was so scared to paint this stone fireplace.

Before and after painted stacked stone fireplace.

Check out how six designers dramatically changed a space with a fireplace makeover and see if they inspire any ideas for your own. I told her if this was my house i would have painted it before i unpacked my underwear we ve been friends for a long time so she knew what i would say before she even asked. Well i loved this look for years. And there s an excellent tutorial by anneke mcconnell detailing how she did it.

Painting your stacked stone can give it a fresh facelift without having to replace it. Gray stone looks great with gray walls. These six fireplace makeovers range from a simple change like painting the bricks to a major transformation such as a new two story high stone surround with a niche piled extra high with wood for a photo shoot. The grey slab of mantle was terrible.

I think the paint job here is superb. The family room was 21 x 22 and had a central stacked stone fireplace with a built up base. An important part of the room makeover was to paint our stacked stone fireplace. I wanted to neutralize the multicolored stones with a single color.

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One day i was perusing a trade mag and saw a best buy add of all things with a shot of a family room with a fireplace. I think that this is an excellent job here and the stone looks so much better. It was a huge dilemma. Designed to fit into your existing masonry chimney fireplace inserts stop cold chimney draft keep you warmer improve indoor air quality and they can also lower your monthly.

How i painted my stone fireplace. Oct 19 2020 explore kim s board painted stone fireplace on pinterest. And i will never look back. The only tutorials online were for painting uniform brick fireplaces with very few tutorials on painting a stacked.

Last summer while visiting she asked me if i thought she should. I instantly zoned in on the mantle. Mar 3 2020 explore angie malone s board painted stone fireplace on pinterest. To modernize your stone use a latex acrylic stucco paint to give your stacked stone the finished look you re after.

Use a paint mixing tool to mix the paint until you get a uniform color. The goal is to give my space a cleaner palette to work with when i decorate for the seasons. See more ideas about painted stone fireplace stone fireplace fireplace. Had a wood worker make it for me.

This image below is the before. This is a terrific before and after. Then after hesitating for a while i went for it. Perfect to replace the slab and it wasn t rustic wood.

Painted in bm.