How To Cover Up A Brick Fireplace With Wood

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How to cover up a brick fireplace with wood.

Start by measuring and cutting your wood to size. One of the features of our panels is how easy they are to install. When the first coat of paint dries apply a color wash and then quickly wipe it off with a clean dry towel. Paint a red brick fireplace a deep shade of matte blue.

While completely renovating his living room and kitchen customer scott tomlinson needed a diy solution to cover his outdated brick fireplace. Learn how to cover your brick fireplace to transform it from dated to modern farmhouse style with stone painted wood and a solid rustic pine mantel. More involved fireplace makeovers might incorporate a lightweight masonry product called manufactured veneer stone perfect for do it yourself work. It feels so good to have another project checked off the list at least partially.

Allow the concrete to dry for at least 24 hours then apply a second coat of latex infused thinset. Cover an outdated brick fireplace with contemporary tile. A bag of either concrete or stucco mix costs about 9 and will cover approximately 25 sq ft of fireplace when applied 3 8 inch thick. Or it can be a simple construction project where you cover up the brick with drywall wood or tile.

We covered our frame the front facing portion with plywood first. To make the wash mixture mix one part blue paint and one part white paint with four parts of water. Then we added the finished pine the wood you paint and see last. Today i m sharing how we covered up our brick fireplace step by step.

It s simple and easy with our all in one paint by heirlo. We used a combination of plywood and pine 1 x 6 pieces cut to size. In this video we would like to share our diy love with this demo of how to paint a brick fireplace. Once your frame is completed the next phase is to cover the fireplace with wood.