Sometimes, even despite attentive maintenance and care, brick masonry fireplaces amass a fair amount soot, mildew, and efflorescence that cumulatively dates a modern home. While a teardown of this ...

If your fireplace is bringing down the fresh aesthetics of your interior decor, there's an easy and budget-friendly way to ...

Fireplace too dark? Use our step-by-step guide to brighten it up and bring some life to your room. While some bricks are beautiful and shouldn't be painted, others might not have that classic ...

♪♪ Kevin: On "Ask This Old House," our experts travel across the country to answer questions about your house. ♪♪ Today, Mauro will show you the right way to paint a fireplace. Then Jenn has enlisted ...

You face a few different issues: how to prep brick and tile so paint sticks, which paint to use and how to apply the paint evenly to such textured surfaces. There’s considerable disagreement about ...

It's taken almost 40 years, but I think Marcia is finally starting to rub off on me, just a little. And that, as Martha Stewart might say, is a very good thing. We were discussing our latest project ...

Q: Our daughter lives in an arts and crafts bungalow that has been extensively modified. The surround is tapestry brick with extruding buttresses at the top next to the mantle. She wants to paint the ...

Q: What would happen if someone used house paint on the inside of a dirty fireplace? The one at our house is really ugly. My wife wants it fixed, but I can’t afford a wood stove or insert. A: If you ...

If you're remodeling a room and the new colors don't match the brick fireplace, painting the fireplace is an inexpensive upgrade that make a huge difference in modernizing your interior design. Make ...