Our fireplace

I decided that Sunday was a day to repaint our fireplace. In one day I managed to degloss, prime, and put 4 coats of paint on it!

Here is a before:

You can see all the film on the glass and someone had also colored on the glas with a crayon. The wood looks better in this photo, but was quite washed out looking in person. It just needed a face lift.

Here is another before as we prepared the space:

Got it taken apart, set up, and I de-glossed it:

Then we primed it with some leftover tinted primer. If I was going to do it again, I wouldn't have gone with tinted primer. It was hard to cover with the white. However, like I said, this was leftover from our kitchen/bathroom door/stairs and so it was free.

Here I am applying 1 of the 4 coats of white paint.

 And, ta-da! It is REALLY white. Like, so white that when I stare directly at it I end up seeing spots and screaming, "My eyes! My eyes!" Joe is telling me that it will look different once we get all the stuff put back on top..... and maybe some dirty fingerprints on it to match the rest of our house.

The brass is now bothering me more, so I am planning to run to Home Depot today to get some paint for that. This fireplace still isn't perfect and doesn't look new, but it has now had a facelift and is looking a bit improved.

I tried to light it for the picture, but couldn't get it started. Yes, I turned on the gas, but nothing. I wonder if Joe turned off the gas in the basement? Anyhow, yes, I turned the gas back off when I couldn't get it lit. I will have Joe light it later.


ETA: I got the brass toned down and I am much happier. I took it all off, scrubbed it with degreaser, sanded it a bit to rough it up, and then I applied spray paint. I used Rust Oleum high temperature spray paint. I had planned on painting it all a flat black, but Home Depot was out of black and all they had was silver. For under $6, I figured I would take the risk and do the silver. I actually like it and will be keeping it this color. So, here is the finished product (yes, Joe got it lit for me):

This entire project was completed with leftovers from other projects in the house plus $11 worth of stuff: $6 for paint and $5 for new "burning embers" for the fireplace. I am really pleased with it.