Update A Stone Fireplace Cottage Style

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Changing the look and style of your fireplace stone is easy with limewash paint. It was quick and added so much charm to our living room. Click the link for full tutorial.

Before

You can watch my YouTube video where I share the steps, ad talk about the mistakes I made so you don't do the same mistakes. Click the link below.

To watch the video of us transforming our fireplace with limewash click the link below. I also shared the lessons we learned.

Protect Surrounding Surfaces

Limewashing our fireplace wasn't the messiest project, but it did splatter a bit. So we put plastic down to protect the surrounding surafces.

Wet & Clean the Stone

Before adding limewash to the stone we soaked the stone with water from a squirt bottle and cleaned it.

Dilute the Limewash

To start we diluted the limewash with water to get the consistency we wanted. There is no rule for how to do it, but we found it was easier to work with thinner.

Put Limewash on Stone

After we had the limewash mixed we began painting it on to the stone, starting at the top and working our way down.

Distress Limewash

We sprayed water directly onto the limewash and then began rubbing it off with the paintbrush or rag until we got to look we wanted.

For more info on how we transformed our fireplace with limewash click the link below

Now all that's left is the reclaimed barn beam mantel.

Click the link on the next slide to get an email when it's finished

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