Give Your Brick Fireplace A Make-Over!

Fireplaces can add warmth, beauty, texture and set the mood for a room as a focal point. But outdated fireplaces can completely detract from everything else we do to decorate our homes. Don't let your fireplace drag down your decorating! Give it a face lift!

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From adding moldings, to stucco to tile and paint, there are all sorts of ways to give your fireplace a new face lift!
It benefits you in more ways than just making your home more updated. An outdated fireplace can actually prevent your home from selling in a Real Estate crunch!

HomeBedazzle.Com shows us many fireplace make-overs that will give you some ideas for your own. Painted brick, beautiful molding surrounds and faux finishes.

HGTV show us that faux stone panels are a viable option. But the one I really want to show you is how to use Stucco to re-surface your fireplace!

My designer mind sees this new flat surface and I'm thinking cast ornaments here!

Imagine our Cast Plaster Oasis Mold design running horizontally across the front and sides of the front of the fireplace
with the Cast Plaster Empire Medallion Mold right in the center. Now that would have WOW power!

Ah, but think about this as well. How about broken mirror pieces and faux jewel stones in to the stucco? And did you know that your stucco can be pre-tinted to wonderful colors before you apply it? My mind reels with the possibilities!

Complete instructions are included on the HGTV website for covering your brick with stucco, But here was my other thought:

Our property in Northern Idaho is all natural forest, but there is an area in the front yard that I want to do something really grand with! So my thought is that I would create brick pillars that would hold up to any storm and cover them with the same stucco treatment and add cast concrete ornamentation! So I'm considering this treatment for that project as well!