This past week, a friend of mine helped me white wash the fireplace. I am tired of the family room being dark, and Kevin and I are motivated to get things done around the house. (Finally! We always said we would start improving the house when the kids got older.) My friend is an art teacher, and miracle-worker when it comes to any type of project, so we didn't do the white washing the typical way (think Young House Love) which is great since it would have been too white for Kevin. (His response was "It looks better." That is wonderful coming from him!)
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| A picture from a few weeks ago, with the old, dark fireplace. |
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| I have always disliked this mantle as well. Ugh. |
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| After about 20 minutes of work. |
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| The entire thing is white washed. |
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| Montie added extra white wash to add depth to the bricks, and we painted the mantle. At some point we will add to the mantle, making it wrap around the brick to touch the walls. |
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| Inspired, we moved around the furniture to uncover the windows. The room is so much brighter! |
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| This is what the fireplace looked like for years. (Minus the decorations.) We had a red blanket covering up the brass front since the draft was so bad. #NeverForget. |
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