Painting Marble Around Fireplace
Use painter s tape to cover walls with tarp.
Painting marble around fireplace. Lay a drop cloth or tarp around the fireplace s base as recommended by monster guide to protect your floor. There is also a piece on the floor. Get step by step instructions and tips to paint a marble fireplace surround using chalk paint including which brand holds up to the heat. Step 1 lay a protective tarp or drop cloth under and around the fireplace area to protect your surroundings from paint.
So we went neutral. Okay so the key to painting a marble fireplace facing is the high heat paint. It s important to lay down the protective cloth or tarp right away long before you begin painting because soot and ash can sometimes fall onto the floor as you sand and clean the marble fireplace. Can i paint this.
Because the fireplace is a dry area not subjected to moisture or foot traffic it is possible to paint over the existing marble whether it is tile or a slab. It does get rather warm especially above the fireplace. This way if any paint bleeds under the tape it blends right in. We were dealing with some serious orangey oak and peach faux marble here.
It was screaming for a full on makeover if you re only looking to fix your tile surround then skip on to 4 now if you search the internets there are a gazillion posts about painting fireplaces i wrote one about whitewashing our brick fireplace last year and differing advice about what paint to use. In my case this would have been the trim color and i would have painted a little on top of the tape where it meets the tile. When my family purchased our home in 2005 there weren t a lot of options for customizing our gas fireplace. This budget friendly 25 fireplace update can be done in less than a weekend.
Clean the surface of the marble well. We dislike the green stone. Preparation is the key to painting a marble fireplace surround. Whatever paint color is under the tape use a little bit along the edge on top of the tape.
It s a wood burning fireplace with a metal insert.