Painting Marble Tile Around Fireplace
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Painting marble tile around fireplace. A friend suggested that perhaps it could be painted. I used a product called kleen strip sander deglosser before i put any paint on. She contacted us to dis. The fireplace is often the center and focus of the room in which it is installed.
Get step by step instructions and tips to paint a marble fireplace surround using chalk paint including which brand holds up to the heat. So we went neutral. Shannon and her husband didn t care for the color of marble on their fireplace. Give it a new look with this brilliant painting technique.
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. In painting you lose the natural stone touch but you can choose the color or even faux finish the look to create a marble look. Don t have the money to replace your outdated fireplace. How to paint tile surrounding a fireplace.
I have looked at many how to paint tiles on the fireplace blogs found yours to be the formula that worked great for me. It s actually a project i completed a few months ago but i never got around to pulling together a post with all the details because i jumped right into holiday decorating so you might have actually noticed the painted fireplace surround in my christmas home tour. I have awful pink tiles in our master br fireplace looked at it for 18 years. This budget friendly 25 fireplace update can be done in less than a weekend.
Preparation is the key to painting a marble fireplace surround. When my family purchased our home in 2005 there weren t a lot of options for customizing our gas fireplace. With these 6 simple steps you are one ste. If the tile surrounding the fireplace is old dingy or out of date it.
We were dealing with some serious orangey oak and peach faux marble here. One alternative to replacement is to paint over the marble. Today i m so excited to finally share the details of how i painted our tile fireplace surround.