Diy Fireplace Hearth Cover
Tile the fireplace hearth with victorian style mosaic tiles;
Diy fireplace hearth cover. If you’ve got a fireplace you’d love to makeover but your budget isn’t as big as your vision, i hope our $150 before and after fireplace makeover makes you feel like you can tackle it! Now it was time to mix up the concrete feather finish and start coating the fireplace! Wood wrapping covers up the brick for a cleaner, more traditional look.
Fireplace before and after diy projects. Before we could tile the hearth, we covered the brick with 1/4 inch mdf. It is what you must use under tiles.
It’s amazing what you can do with paint alone, and add it a little tile and wood and you can work some serious. In all fairness, my use as a fireplace hearth is rather obscure and it could have been almost anything. 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.
I bought two sheets of 3' x 5' cement backer board in the ½ size. Because they knew the osb would show through the pallet boards, they first painted it black. This is a really great example of how you can put a television over your mantel and still decorate for seasons.
Diy fireplace mantel and hearth makeover. We certainly hope that these will give you the motivation you need to make your hearth into a truly beautiful showcase for your home. Cover over the fireplace recess with a sheet of plasterboard and skim the wall;
So often, making your own fireplace hearth might involve jack hammers, crow bars and lots of elbow grease. Even better, there was no demolition involved. Maybe you just want the look of a fireplace so that you have a focal point for your living room or bedroom.