Sometimes, even despite attentive maintenance and care, brick masonry fireplaces amass a fair amount soot, mildew, and efflorescence that cumulatively dates a modern home. While a teardown of this ...

The couple chose a herringbone pattern using white tiles from Ca’ Pietra and dark gray grout. “I got designer tiles at a ...

Luckily, altering the look of brick is as simple as adding a fresh coat (or a few fresh coats), of paint over it. There are both functional and aesthetic reasons for painting bricks. Adding a coat ...

How you're mounting it to the brick or stone? These are concerns too but more fixable. Really, though, you should just avoid these potential issues and just not mount the TV above the fireplace.

Decades of renovations can hide, or even erase, a lot of a historic home’s original features. For Claudia L’mann’s 1930s ...

There are two distinct views about painting a brick house. One view is a newly painted brick house looks fresh, trendy and new. There is anecdotal evidence that well-done, painted brick houses ...

On “ Unsellable Houses ,” Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb take on homes that haven't sold, renovate them, find a buyer, and ...

Two tones of paint do the work of paneling ... Among the home’s oddities was a fireplace in the bathroom. Furthermore, the ...

A company has developed a new peel-off paint that can be easily removed and reapplied at any time, allowing you to change colors easily.