We painted our outdated red and black brick fireplace and built in bookshelves with chalk paint.
Using chalk paint on brick fireplace.
This simple step by step tutorial will answer all of your questions about painting a brick fireplace the right way including which paints work best what paint sheen you should use and whether chalk paint is a good idea.
The mantel is painted in graphite chalk paint and distressed a bit.
Then use the 6 roller with nap to paint the rest of the fireplace ensuring that the paint is applied as evenly as possible.
I used the same wash on the brick fireplace.
Painted a heavy coat of paint possibly multiple coats is applied to completely cover the existing brick and grout lines a red fireplace becomes a different solid color.
Painting fireplace brick or stone.
Whitewash typically this involves diluting paint with water and proceeding to brush it on and wipe it off giving more of a muted look.
The soft grey grout was in pristine condition and since we didn t want a rolled on look we painted each brick individually with country grey chalk paint which really added texture.
Annie sloan chalk paint on a brick fireplace.
In this case his technical solution for a brick fireplace was gardz plus annie sloan chalk paint.
She used french linen chalk paint on the floor tiles and then ran a wash of pure white and water 1 part each over the dried french linen and immediately wiped off the excess.
The fireplace in our family room is a particularly unlovely brick.
Whether your fireplace is made of brick or stone chalk paint can be painted right over the surface without any primer sanding or stripping.
Dry brush a mostly dry brush is used to apply paint to select areas on the brick.
The built ins and cabinets are french.
Use the 2 brush and proclassic interior acrylic latex paint to paint the mortar along with any cracks and crevices of the brick.
Kristin young totally transformed her fireplace surround using old white chalk paint by annie sloan.
The customer didn t want a solid colour so we decided to go with a distressed colour wash type.