painting interior brick

[valeriespencer]

quote:Originally posted by Patricia

We recently painted our brick fireplace and it looks fabulous in my opinion. It had never been painted so I started w/ Benjamin Moore Fresh Start primer in white. It is able to handle brick or metal surfaces. After the first coat of primer, I realized that I liked the old look of the primer so I did not even need to add a coat of 'real' paint. Should you want to add a coat of real paint, though, the guy at Benjamin Moore told me to use their regular paint over the Fresh Coat. As I said, though, we did not want the color to be that dense, so we did not try that. Further, we did not caulk or do anything else to fill the holes. This added to the old, sand blasted look which we like. To the honest, the divets in our brick were so deep in some spots, I do not know how you could fill them unless you used a lot of caulk and/or drywall mud.... I have attached a picture of our fireplace for you to see if this is what you are aiming for (excuse the rest of the room, as we are not done remodeling it yet). Let me know how it works out!

Patricia Wallwork