To make sure your paint adheres and dries properly, you'll need to thoroughly clean the brick. Use a wire scrub brush to remove any dirt or dust, then apply nonsudsy trisodium phosphate (also called TSP; wear gloves and safety goggles), and wash thoroughly with a heavy-duty cleaner. Then you would have to prime the bricks with a stain blocking primer. The you can paint the bricks either with concrete paint or a good acrylic latex paint. You could also white wash the brick or get a kit
Sherwin Williams has a good tutorial on painting fireplace brick that will help for any brick.
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We have built-ins on either side of our gray brick fireplace, and I would love to paint the fireplace out in white. However, my husband feels it would be a bad idea.
To make sure your paint adheres and dries properly, you'll need to thoroughly clean the brick. Use a wire scrub brush to remove any dirt or dust, then apply nonsudsy trisodium phosphate (also called TSP; wear gloves and safety goggles), and wash thoroughly with a heavy-duty cleaner. Then you would have to prime the bricks with a stain blocking primer. The you can paint the bricks either with concrete paint or a good acrylic latex paint. You could also white wash the brick or get a kit
Sherwin Williams has a good tutorial on painting fireplace brick that will help for any brick.
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