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Mdolph6
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A Family of 4
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For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
My sister in law just painted a fire place at a restaurant and it looks sooo nice, and now she wants to paint mine......
any thoughts. Im undecided still if I want it done..
Here is what she did....
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Posted 9/22/08 8:35 PM  |
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KLSbear
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Karen
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
Ours was painted when we moved in and we tried to strip the paint (big mistake - we gave up after a full evening of scrubbing). We painted over it again in a color we liked better.
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| Posted 9/22/08 9:15 PM |
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june262004
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Kristin
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
We have a brick fireplace. I will never paint it. If I wanted it to be a different color I would do something else to the face of it to cover the brick but wont paint right on the brick.
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| Posted 9/22/08 9:20 PM |
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JennCo
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
First let me say that she did a great job! Does she work in homes as well?
I have a brick fireplace too and i've been on the fence about whether to paint it b/c once you do it, there's not turning back
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| Posted 9/22/08 9:20 PM |
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csorisi
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Corinne
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
We had a brick fireplace and I hated it so we ended up refacing it because I didn't think that painting it would do the trick. You sister in law though did a GREAT job you can't tell the difference. There are pics in my album, under downstairs if you are interested in the before & afters.
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| Posted 9/22/08 11:32 PM |
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Mdolph6
So in Love....
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
Posted by JennCo
First let me say that she did a great job! Does she work in homes as well?
I have a brick fireplace too and i've been on the fence about whether to paint it b/c once you do it, there's not turning back
Yes she does, she has done alot of projects in peoples houses.
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| Posted 9/23/08 7:59 AM |
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CaMacho
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Jess
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
I'm not a huge fan of red brick so I personally love painted fireplaces.
That one your sister did looks great!!
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| Posted 9/23/08 9:27 AM |
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MarisaK
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Marisa
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
I never really thought about it -
I guess I might paint it if it went w/ the rest of my decor ...........but I love the exposed red bricks - so I probably would not
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| Posted 9/23/08 9:33 AM |
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Lucky09
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DW
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
I have a good friend who did this in her house. She had a sort of late 70's - 80's looking brick (it was dark red with black bricks throughout).
She did a white wash over the whole thing. Not paint, but a white stain.
It honestly looks BEAUTIFUL.
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| Posted 9/23/08 9:35 AM |
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carlowlou
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Jen
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
She did an awesome job! I love it!
I don't love my red brick but I'm not sure what to do with it....something like this might be an option
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| Posted 9/23/08 1:44 PM |
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Blu-ize
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Susan
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Re: For those who have brick fire places....did anyone ever paint them?
Our brick was painted white and we had it sandblasted back to the brick. I hated the white paint.
Having said that, my house is white painted brick/stucco. It suits the house but I would never paint over perfectly good red brick.
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| Posted 9/23/08 2:59 PM |
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