The fireplace
From basic to beautiful for under $100!
Behold: fireplace glow-up with no tiling experience (or tile) necessary!
For the surround: I went right over the existing tiles with landscape adhesive and a very thin brick veneer (like, so thin I wable able to cut them to size with a xacto knife). Then I simply painted them with interior latex paint. Start in the center at a focal point and work out from there. It turned out I really didn’t need the laser level… I was able to just eyeball it. It also helped to cut pieces and lay them out on the floor first. I did not use grout because the spacing between bricks was too tight for that, but, the globby adhesive plus paint in between gave me a grouted look nonetheless!
Colors: Sherwin Williams agreeable gray (flat on the brick, satin on the surround)
For the “hearth” — I fixed a crack tile with some car dent putty, then I painted all the grout black and cut faux-marble contact paper tiles that I adhered right over the top of the existing tiles. I had to make a template out of tracing paper for each tile first, because not a single one was the same…
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