Unlike drywall or wood, brick has a unique texture that should be taken into consideration when painting. Follow this tutorial to fix up your bare brick masonry fireplace in under a weekend.

Maggie must have read them and decided it was time to transform her dated living room fireplace ... the critical areas where the brick touched up against the drywall walls and moldings, and ...

For the brick fireplace shown here ... You could also choose to drywall or plaster over the brick, creating a blank canvas that you can then do pretty much anything you want with.

Q: I would like to paint the brick and tile around my fireplace, which has a gas insert ... inch or half-inch nap — or to spread primer over the faces of the brick. Or, because you are painting ...

Q: I'd like to remove my fireplace brick ... you can either plaster a mortar bed over the existing brick to create a substrate or you can affix cement board such as Durock with thinset mortar.

But many other online sources say to use high-temperature paint, such as the Stove Bright brand stocked by many fireplace ... or to spread primer over the faces of the brick.