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Difficulty: Hard
Requires attention to detail to keep tiles level and even.
The time for those exposed bricks framing your fireplace, with their pocked faces and rustic finish, is long past. Nights by that fire practically screamed for a glass of Chablis and the soothing sounds of Lionel Ritchie. Now you’re more about dinner parties and family holidays in front of the hearth. But before you go at the bricks with a paint roller and some white semigloss, consider the more elegant cover-up of art tiles.
Tiling a fireplace surround isn’t a quickie makeover. But as This Old House senior technical editor Mark Powers demonstrates, it’s well worth the effort. In a few days, you can upgrade the heart of your home, taking it from date-night cliché to elegant entertainment spot ready to impress.
Accent tile: Halstead; field tile in Rothwell Gray; both from Motawi Tile, about $108 per square foot.
