How to remove paint from stone fireplace

By Brooke RessellA new stone fireplace can be a gorgeous feature in any room of your home. But an old, outdated one can quickly become an eyesore that you can’t…

If stripping paint from wood is tedious, stripping it from a brick or stone fireplace can only be described as more tedious. When working outdoors, you can avoid the tedium of stripping by using a sandblaster, but that procedure is too invasive to use in your living room.

Stone fireplaces accumulate soot just like any other fireplace surface. The stone, however, is a porous surface that requires bit of a deep cleaning to entirely remove the soot residue.

* This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my affiliate disclosure. * Since moving into our current house I've found plenty of projects to keep me busy. From painting rooms to building furniture with Pieter, to fixing, decorating, decluttering and always, organizing. We've updated our daughter's room, From Office to Bedroom, we changed the…

To paint or not to paint brick or stone fireplaces is always a big decision. And we decide to paint our white.

Whitewashing a fireplace surround is a super solution for updating old, dark stone or brick. It can be a little scary to undertake, but it’s actually a very eas…

how we cleaned and prepped our outdated stone fireplace before we whitewashed it using vinegar and a drill bit brush attachment.

Do you have an outdated fireplace that’s more of an eyesore than a beautiful focal point? Then you need a fireplace makeover! My old fireplace was covered in large, bold-colored stones that were in desperate need of an update, so I decided to give it a fresh look.

We don't recommend sandblasting your brick to remove paint, but oven cleaner is promising.