Sandstone fireplace makeover

Beautiful DIY stone fireplace makeover. How to DIY a beautiful stone fireplace with neutral matte colors. For less.

Today I’m sharing how to easily paint a stone fireplace and sharing my charcoal grey fireplace makeover with you! One day, I’d love to renovate the fireplace entirely. The fire…

Fireplace Makeover and Tutorial: Before and After I am so excited to to share this project with you! I have been wanting to do this for years and have finally got up the nerve. I honestly don't know why it took me so long to bite the bullet and start, but I'm so glad that I did! Repainting the dated brass and black fireplace doors, surround, stone, and hearth updated the look of my living room so much. It was a little more time consuming that I first thought but it wasn't bad at all. It took…

Today my mother and I conquered her long needed revamp of the dinning room. First on the list was painting their sand stone fire place. Mom wanted to replace her country tan primitive style with lighter colors and a fresher farmhouse style. I'll be posting another blog later on the whole renovation and look of the entire dinning room. The before: We stopped at Lowes and picked up Valspar primer + paint. We decided to go with primer to fill in all the textures of the sand stone. We ended up…

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2020 was a year of DIY! See the best of my 1970s home updates - most of which were done with paint!

* This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my affiliate disclosure. * Since moving into our current house I've found plenty of projects to keep me busy. From painting rooms to building furniture with Pieter, to fixing, decorating, decluttering and always, organizing. We've updated our daughter's room, From Office to Bedroom, we changed the…

Lessons from A White Painted Stone Fireplace Makeover

Do you have an outdated fireplace that’s more of an eyesore than a beautiful focal point? Then you need a fireplace makeover! My old fireplace was covered in large, bold-colored stones that were in desperate need of an update, so I decided to give it a fresh look.