Posts Tagged: before and after

Painting Brick Fireplace White

Fireplace - Before and After

Choosing Your Method To Schmear or not to Schmear? That was my question. There are a lot of ways to do a white fireplace! When I first started planning this project, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to do the German Smear method, or a simple whitewash? I finally made the decision based on the…

Painting Old Oak Staircase Black

Staircase DIY Before and After

Continuing with out grand plans for the staircase makeover – next up after the install of the iron balusters was painting the old oak stair treads and railing black. I would file this overall portion of the project under “easy”, but note that it’s very time consuming and definitely a multi-day project. We had a few…