Have you long been starting at your old fashioned brick fireplace and surround and wondering how best to update it without actually having to tear the whole thing out.
Diy brick fireplace surround.
Covered brick fireplace update.
Before we could tile the hearth we covered the brick with 1 4 inch mdf.
We mostly cy worked so hard on that fireplace surround so it was great for us to read all the great positive feedback.
I felt like y all were giving us a bunch of high fives and it was awesome.
This is the companion video to our recent article on building a rumford style fireplace.
Well we re pleased to tell you that your patience has finally paid off.
I wanted to hug all of your necks.
Additional corbels were added and a board for the mantel top was cut to sit on top of the crown molding and to fit around the brick.
How to build a fireplace surround when we took the old mantel shelf off we were left with a surface almost completely flush with the wall one of the main reasons for this makeover.
That fireplace makeover was literally our first diy project and there were some imperfections that had begun to show so it was time for it to go.
As a quick story behind this makeover back in 2018 i decided to change the current tile on the fireplace that we installed over the brick back in 2012.