Thursday, March 19, 2009

I now have 95% of the fireplace complete! The only things remaining are the decorative ledge, painting the brass bars, and caulking and painting around the mantle.

Just to remind you how bad it was before:


Semi Finished-After:



Close up on the subway tiles (these were not nearly as easy to install as I had hoped, but they do look amazing):

I used some of my mistinted paint to change the color of the mantle. Once it was distressed it matched the rest of the mantle perfectly! It was previously a yellowy-butter color, and this accents the tiles much better:
Now on to the floors!!!

14 comments:

Jennifer said...

I love it!

K Lynne Designs said...

I just love your blog! All of your projects are so fun to watch come together and you have the most adorable furry and human kids! :)

Tammy said...

It's beautiful! Great job!

Emily said...

Looks Fabulous!

Meredith said...

The subway tiles really do look amazing!

Anonymous said...

Looks fab! Love it!

Martha said...

Wow! Looks amazing!

Question: Why was the tile so hard to install? I'm asking because we are about to tile our kitchen backsplash and we've never done it before....

Another question: Did you remove the old tile first?

Love the stuff you've chosen!

Melanie@TheOldWhiteCottage said...

Beautiful!

Shannon Dew said...

That looks amazing!!! Great job!

Courtney said...

Looks fantastic!! I'm so impressed that you did this!!!

claire @ a peachtree city life said...

it looks so great!

you will have to post about how you painted the brass bars. i have been wanting to do that with ours, but i've been afraid that i wouldn't use the right paint and it would melt off or something when we had a fire.

good luck with finishing it!

Chelsea said...

Wow! Looks great!!

it is everlasting said...

It looks fabulous! I'm loving those subway tiles!

Anonymous said...

Looks great! You guys are so creative and handy!

 
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