Bye Bye Brick.

So this is our fireplace, complete with dirty, ugly old brick and paleolithic era sconces.  It's one redeeming quality is the mantle.  Eventually, even the mantle will be replaced, but for now, it serves us just fine.



Anyway, we both hate the brick. Eventually we are going to reface the fireplace surround with stacked stone, but for now we just decided to paint it.




Ta da! We painted it a light grey (Timberwolf Grey, or something like that, if you ask Behr) which matches our silvery grey curtains that are opposite the fireplace. It really makes the room feel a lot brighter.



These sconces will be gone soon hopefully. Here's one in all it's broken falling down glory.



The next part of this project was to redo the hearth. I mean look at it. It's stamped concrete that is very dirty and stained. Not to mention the fact that the front is way lower than the back.




It had to go.  We thought it was one solid piece of concrete, but lucky for us, it came up in two parts.

Joe loves when I take pictures of him while he is carrying heavy objects.  He doesn't mind standing there at all.  :)

So this is how we left the hearth.

One step at a time.