Painting Ceramic Tile Fireplace Surround

It has a porcelain ceramic tile that is 12 24 fairly recent redo with no grout lines.

Painting ceramic tile fireplace surround.

Tape off areas you don t want to accidentally paint. If your fireplace is surrounded by carpet gently press the carpet away from tile and cover with tape. Giving our living room electric fireplace surround hearth and mantel a total makeover has been in the plans for a while it s in great shape we love the size of it and the design of the mantel but the colors were pretty boring and not as bright and stylish as i wanted. The actual fireplace opening is in the lower center of the 12 feet.

We were dealing with some serious orangey oak and peach faux marble here. How to paint tile surrounding a fireplace. 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. I took a few deep breaths before i started priming.

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. I didn t have to paint the entire tile because the slate made a great background color for the stencil. Wipe with water and allow to air dry. Once i placed the roller on the tile there would be no going back.

If the tile surrounding the fireplace is old dingy or out of date it. Painting fireplace tile faq s how do you paint a tile fireplace. 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. Then i poured some primer into the painting tray took a deep breath and went to work rolling it onto the tile.

Wash tile with non detergent soap and water or tsp. Then tuck tape along tile line. How to paint tile easy fireplace paint makeover. I m not gonna lie.

The fireplace is often the center and focus of the room in which it is installed. Lightly sand the surface. It is a gas burning fireplace. I taped off the fireplace mantel and floor all around the tile.

After painting mantel tile surround before painting. My fireplace walls front and both sides from floor to ceiling is 12 feet high. However if you need to paint your fireplace tile it s possible.