What color is my fireplace brick?
nuhouse10
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What do you think about my brick/tile fireplace?
Comments (6)Is that a porcelain tile on the hearth? To my eye, it's the juxtaposition of that brick and tile that is so unpleasant and jarring, not either one by itself. The brick and mortar does look pretty dirty, and the contrast between the white wall and the brick seems too harsh. Are you planning to paint the wall? In our last house, we had dark red brick that I actually liked. But the PO had painted the room a pale yellow. I chose a deep red that complemented the brick and we loved that room. Before: After: If you're planning to paint the walls, I might wait on the brick until you decide about a wall color. Walls are easy to paint and repaint, but painted brick is forever. But there is still the problem of the brick surround and tile hearth. One or the other doesn't quite seem right. Gray painted brick might work with the tile, but does it work with your furniture and decor? Is the gray tile even a shade you like?...See MoreWhat paint color to tone down peach/orange brick in fireplace?
Comments (11)I'm afraid I must disagree with the suggestion that green on the walls will tone down the brick. Actually, the opposite is true...colors that are opposites on the color wheel will bring up the color in both...so green makes orange look twice as orange, and yellow makes purple much stronger. We dealt with the same issue by painting our walls a soft neutral, and then putting a four to one mixture of water and paint in a bucket, washing it onto the brick chimney wall with a big paintbrush, and patting it down with a handful of cotton rag. This method works wonderfully to control the look, and keeps the variety among the different bricks, while tying it all into the room in a much more sophisticated way. It took one morning to do the whole thing, and gave the effect more of stone than brick. I wanted the hearth to relate to the dark floor rather than to the wall, because it keeps the brick wall from intruding visually into the room area...so I painted the inside of the firebox and the whole brick hearth flat black. Then I brushed a second coat of semi-gloss black just over the surfaces of the hearth bricks themselves, which made the whole thing settle into the floor. The grout stayed flat and shadowy, the nooks and crannies likewise, and the effect was much more natural than the dustiness of just flat black, or the fakey plasticky-ness of all semigloss. You could do the same thing with a deep tone of your carpet color. I wish I had a photo to show you. It looked wonderful, if I do say so myself!...See MoreFireplace part II -- what color to paint the brick?
Comments (20)Paint samples are on the brick, and it's down to Revere Pewter and Balboa Mist. I much preferred the more gray beige over the more brown tones. (romy718, Revere Pewter is lovely in your room!) Practigal, the fireplace is purely decorative. It originally held a gas heater, so it's not deep enough to burn wood anyway; we capped the chimney when the brick mortar started to fall apart, and we capped the gas line to that part of the house when they detected a tiny leak, so we couldn't use it even if we wanted to. It is kind of weird to pick a paint without the context of other decor. I do have a rug that's going in the room, so I'm referring to it. The furniture that's going in that room now is the leftover reject material from the rest of the house. I want to put in some cozy Craftsman style seating--maybe a Morris chair and a rocker--but that will have to wait until the bank account recovers. So I'm just going to pick the best color I can for now. I can always repaint it later. The corbels arrived (I don't know if ArchitecturalDepot.com is always that fast, but they got it to me overnight when I paid for three-day shipping) and I'm working on finding stain to match the mantel. I'll get back this next week--we spent today moving stuff out of storage, and I've got boxes to put away. But it's so cool to see the progress. Oh, and my husband's reaction was a sort of bemused resignation. This isn't the first time I've jumped head-first into a project without consulting him. Sometimes this goes very well; other times it's a disaster. He asked me today if it was too soon to tease me about the bookcases (which I purchased from Ikea and assembled before we realized I had measured wrong and they wouldn't fit in the space--and that therefore required some pretty major engineering to make work). (I told him yes, it was too soon. Way too soon.) The fireplace looks to be not only a success but also one that doesn't require any effort on his part, and as he's teaching an accelerated summer chemistry course and has almost no spare time, that's a win!...See MoreWhat color to paint fireplace brick?
Comments (5)Sorry but painting it will not make it more modern especially with that mantle. The brick works beautifully with your wall color and unless you use a heat proof paint, you won't be able to then use the fireplace if you paint it. FYI: There is nothing modern anymore about gray paint. It's actually a trend that is on its way out....See Morenuhouse10
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