Do I paint fireplace mantle or not?
I want to lighten up this fireplace area by painting the mantle white. As you can see the entertainment area next to it is painted SW Ivoire. My family room is open concept and the combined family room and kitchen/dining area has a bright white trim on the casing, baseboards, windows trim and molding. My question is this: will it look ok to paint the mantle WHITE next to the SW IVOIRE entertainment cabinetry? The entertainment area will remain SW IVOIRE.
Excuse the mess, pic taken after Christmas and partially taken down Christmas decor. Chairs are temporarily in place until we get a new sofa.
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niecie
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show me your cream painted wooden fireplace/mantle please!!
Comments (12)BDL -- yes -- thats an original -- from a very late night auction on EBay! Really quite a fluke -- we didn't expect to get it! LOL! She will transfer back to the bedroom for the warmer months -- and another old portrait of lady in a cooler shade will be given the star position! LOL! BTW -- I do have a wonderful canvas transfer of a handsome gentlemen AND another one of a favorite Rembrandt too! So I believe in artworks of ALL sorts varieties and kinds! What matters most is that the artwork "speaks" to you -- and lives well in your home .... Jan...See Morewhat would you do with this fireplace/paneling/mantle?
Comments (14)Oh hello everyone! Sorry, no I didn't forget, just got busy with my furniture projects. We have not taken possession of this place yet--a little under 3 weeks and it's ours! I'm just in the planning stages. The ideas all look wonderful and I will INDEED reference them. I would love to add cabinets, it's just hard to know how much something like that will cost. The house has about 1500 sq ft of hardwood floors and they really need refinishing, which will set us back about $3700--we want to do that before we move in, so that's the first big thing. Then, it needs a new furnace. During all of this I will be doing budget makeovers with paint and that's pretty much it. So I'm taking all of these ideas as a range between budget/quick fixes and long-term idealized versions of what I REALLY want. Sorry ! I promise I didn't forget and will actually go ahead and bookmark it now. :)...See Moremy mantle gets very hot when fireplace is on, how do i shield this?
Comments (13)We have the same problem, yet the heat has never created a problem in the 10 years we have lived in our home. :) It's a ventless gas fireplace. We hang Christmas stockings every year. There is a small shield on our unit (see photo below), but it really doesn't help with the heat rising. The underside of mantle gets very hot! And while we do not have a TV above, there does not appear to be any overly high heat above the mantle. No obvious problems with the painting that we can see. Try putting a suction cup thermometer in the middle of your TV to gage the temperature. Thermometer Our problem is with the logs "off gassing" when we run it. Yes, we have have the gas company, several gas and fireplace techs, etc. our here, and they all say everything is fine and the off-gassing is normal. Our problem appears to be that the ceilings are only 9' high in our space and the off gassing has no place to escape. We cannot change to vented because of building codes and having windows within a certain distance from the vent. We have changed log size. Went from 36" to 30", I think. And have even turned down the gas intensity (which means that flames are lower.) None of this has helped the smell. It helps to open the french doors, but when it is cold all the heat in the house goes out. So we rarely use the fireplace. We are seriously thinking of putting in an electric set of logs this year. After 10 years, I am ready to have some sort of fire look without the smell. Our HVAC man is looking into one other option before we go ahead with electric. Anyway, I was getting off subject. Good luck! Black shield, right below the granite slab, slopes out and down about 6". Our mantel is high and about 12" deep. Gets hot, and before we changed the log size, some soot would gather underneath. Sold the previous logs, with no problem, on CL....See MoreShould I paint my fireplace mantle?
Comments (4)This site is notoriously glitchy when it becomes to posting photos. What a beautiful space, and I would leave the fireplace alone, as it definitely complements the serene flow of the space. If you paint it, you'll create something of a choppy look in that direction. It's perfect just as it is now....See Moreniecie
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHere's the side view of how the mantel surrounds the brick
.The fireplace looks brighter in the daylight, but very dark in the evening.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHere is my rendering with white and ivory painting.
You can see difference.
You can see contrast with white.
and with less contrast
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5 years agoCLC I am adding a sofa that will be a light color into this space. I do have a mirror that is currently on my opposite wall that will lighten it up. Here it is:
This may help with not having to paint the mantle. Then I would have to find something to go over the sofa table. ugh...changes begat changes begat changes..lol
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