What Color Should I Paint My Brick Fireplace?

When choosing a paint color for your brick fireplace, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with choices. Choosing the right color reflects your personal style and your room’s personality. Think of the mood you want to project. Whether you want to create a tranquil sanctuary or make a dramatic statement, paint colors can make all the difference in the look and feel you’re trying to create.

Let’s take a look at some of the best painted brick fireplace color choices from bold and dramatic to light and airy to natural and authentic:

Deciding On A Color

Ask yourself, “Do I want my fireplace to stand out or blend in with the room?” The color paint you choose will determine how much your fireplace becomes the focal point in your room. Dark colors will draw attention and create drama. If you want your fireplace to be the focal point in the room, a pop of color will draw attention to that area of your room.

Keep It Neutral

Shades of white and off-white create a calm neutral look on brick fireplaces. Tan, beige, cream, and light gray blend in for a natural look. Soft shades of black and gray work well with contemporary-style rooms. Whitewashing, painting a solid light neutral color, or using a product such as Brick-Anew to create a “real brick” look will blend in with any decor. Check out the Brick-Anew process to choose fireplace paint colors.

Create a Contrast

Painting the fireplace brick a darker color with light-colored walls can create an interesting contrast. You can also create a contrast by painting the brick and the mantel different shades.

For example, a white-painted brick with a black mantel makes a bold statement.

Go Monochromatic

If you want the fireplace to blend in completely with the room, try painting the walls and the fireplace brick the same or similar colors. Soft, light shades create a calm, serene atmosphere in the room and downplay the fireplace as the focal point in the room.

Listed below are some products that you look through in order to help choose the best color to paint your brick fireplace:

Bold & Dramatic

  • Black Fireplace In Small Room
    designsponge.com

Our Recommendations:

Rust-Oleum Chalked Ultra Matte Interior Paint - Charcoal

Jolie Paint Matte Finish Paint - Deep Lagoon

Natural  – An Authentic “Real Brick” Look:

  • Authentic Real Brick Look Fireplace Paint
    brick-anew.com

Our Recommendations:

Brick Anew All-In-One Fireplace Paint Kit

German Schmear:

  • German Shmear
    pintrest.com

Our Recommendation:

SimpleSet Pre-Mixed Thin-Set Mortar

White - Light and Bright:

  • White Fireplace in Bright White Room
    foxyroxie.com

Our Recommendation:

Rust-Oleum Chalked Ultra Matte Interior Paint - Linen White

Whitewashed:

  • White Fireplace in Open Room
    younghouselove.com

Our Recommendation:

Giani Brick Transformations Whitewash Paint Kit

Romabio Classico Limewash Paint - Avorio White

Solid Neutrals:

  • Neutral Brick Color
    thiswholehouse.blogspot.com

Our Recommendations:

Rust-Oleum Chalked Ultra Matte Interior Paint - Country Gray

Jolie Paint Matte Finish Paint - French Grey

Brick Dye And Stain

Our Recommendations:

Masonry Cosmetics Brick Staining - Colorant Kit

Best Stone Fireplace Paint Colors You Should Consider

Check out these inspiring designs for your painted stone fireplace.

Stone fireplaces work as a great focal point in any home. With a unique texture and rustic feel, their texture and design can add so much to any room. However, a bad paint job can easily make a fireplace a sloppy, outdated feature. Understanding that your ugly fireplace can be saved with a simple paint job can totally inspire an indoor renovation. Check out these modern paint colors that can update your fireplace, and your entire home.

While beautiful painted stone fireplace before and after photos look great, understanding how to achieve these looks might seem overwhelming. These projects aren't always as impossible as they seem. It could be as simple as a layer of solid paint, but so many possibilities exist when it comes to painted stone fireplaces.

 

1. Solid White

 

Painted white stone is an extremely popular trend in home design right now. While it may sound boring, or even too simple, but the bright pop of color can completely change the dynamic of any room. Opting for white stone will make the painting process easy, as well as choosing the colors. As you can see, having a solid, opaque layer of white paint can modernize an otherwise dated style of fireplace. The great thing about white paint is that it can match any room design, and the decor surrounding it can be taken in so many directions. Completely playing off the clean, white look is a great way to brighten a home.

This stone fireplace makeover by A Beautiful Mess truly emphasizes this brightening effect a coat of white paint on your stone can have, dramatically opening up what was already a very dark room to begin with:

 

Color Used: BEHR - Concrete Sidewalk Masonry Paint

 

It's hard for your jaw not to drop when you see this, as Laurel Home puts it, "Gorilla Dung" fireplace transformed into a beautiful French/old world look. Just goes to show that even the ugliest of stone fireplaces can be salvaged with the right paint job!

 

Color Used: Benjamin Moore - Winter Snow

 

Here's another great example of solid white painted stone courtesy of Most Lovely Things, this time with a slightly different shade of white:

 

Color Used: Benjamin Moore - Cloud White

 

2. Solid Grey

 

Another great color option for a clean but understated painted stone fireplace is to use neutral shades like greys or taupes. Or you could utilize the best of both worlds, like this stone fireplaces painted with grey-taupe via Snazzy Little Things:


Grey Gray Painted Stone Fireplace
Color Used: DecoArt - Greytaup

 

Notice at the the top of the fireplace where Jeanette left a bit of the original stone for comparison's sake... what a difference!

A grey or taupe color is also popular for maintaining the integrity of a more classic stone look. These colors mimic more of the natural shades of stone, but new paint freshens the color and cleans up the overall appearance.

Here's another great example from The Inspired Room of a grey painted stone, this time using a chalk paint:

 

Color Used: Annie Sloan - Paris Grey


3. Combining Neutral Tones

 

Take the grey tones one step further and combine several different colors to achieve a more complex and layered look.'

We love this stone fireplace transformation from Brick-Anew, which utilizes a several different neutral tones to achieve a textured, dimensional look:

 

Brick-Anew Stone Fireplace Painted with Misty Harbor Color

Colors Used: Brick-Anew Misty Harbor

 

Here's another great example from Pam at The Birch Cottage, who combined a white and a grey shade to give the stone a bit more depth:

 

Colors Used: BEHR - Flat White, BEHR- Flannel Grey

 

You can see how this stone fireplace transformation from Paper & Fox not only gives the room a breath of fresh air, but is also able to maintain the look of natural stone:

 

 

Have you seen or used another paint or method on your stone fireplace and achieved some breathtaking results? Comment below to let us know what you did!