Painting Ceramic Tile Fireplace Surround

I then topped it off with a clearcoat to protect it.

Painting ceramic tile fireplace surround. These 25 ideas will inspire you to create a hearthside worthy of cozying up to year round. It has a porcelain ceramic tile that is 12 24 fairly recent redo with no grout lines. We were dealing with some serious orangey oak and peach faux marble here. If the tile surrounding the fireplace is old dingy or out of date it can.

It measures 70 inches across and 22 inches on each side. The actual fireplace opening is in the lower center of the 12 feet. Plus learn how to easily paint stained wood with low voc products. And whether you want to disguise it and make it less visually obvious or enhance its architectural allure paint is the best.

Transform your fireplace on a tight budget with this easy step by step tutorial on how to paint your fireplace surround and tile. It is a gas burning fireplace. I painted the first coat with a colored primer for the grout lines taped off the grout lines with narrow masking tape and then i textured and sponged on a latex paint in a couple of coordinating colors to show texture. A fireplace is supposed to be an attractive focal point but if yours is grabbing attention for all the wrong reasons consider giving it a face lift with beautiful tile.

A fireplace anchors any room it s in even if it doesn t actually work. There are plenty of stylish options available that will transform a sad fire surround into a feature you will adore. This post is sponsored by kilz. But still i was a little hesitant to take the drastic step of painting over the tile even though i painted the brick fireplace surround in our last home black and loved it for some reason the fact that this surround was tile was really shaking my confidence.

How to paint designs on ceramic tile the fireplace is often the center and focus of the room in which it is installed. My fireplace walls front and both sides from floor to ceiling is 12 feet high. I painted my ceramic tile surround 10 years ago and it still looks great. It was screaming for a full on makeover if you re only looking to fix your tile surround then skip on to 4 now if you search the internets there are a gazillion posts about painting fireplaces i wrote one about whitewashing our brick fireplace last year and differing advice about what paint to use.

Honestly i was worried that if the paint didn t adhere well i would end up with a big mess on my hands and then have to deal.