Brick Fireplace Makeover!

This past weekend I helped my mom make over her 1970's brick fireplace. She has been talking about trying to update it for some time now and then I found this link on pinterest: 

Brass Fireplace Update by East Coast Creative

This is what my parent's fireplace looked like:

Yes brick and brass [and not the cool dark vintage brass that is popular right now] 

Luckily the brass cover was removable (unlike the one on East Coast Creative) - that was tossed and they simply just purchased a new one from Crate and Barrel.

We followed the DIY Tutorial on the blog exactly - doing 2 parts water to 1 part of paint - my parent's fireplace had a dark grey grout in-between the brick and the blog had a white grout so we needed a thicker paint to cover!

After taping everything off and putting down drop cloths we went over the whole fire place with the paint using a roller and went back with a large paint brush for the second coat. My mom painted the top two rows of brick with a dark grey paint to help them stand out.

Almost done:

And the final result! 

Doesn't it look SO much better!? 

AND the best part about it is that the whole project took less than two hours start to finish! Woohoo!