If your brick fireplace has seen better days ... original color to peek through creates a much different effect than an all-over paint job. Jessica Nelson Design whitewashed the exposed brick ...

If you're staring at your natural stone fireplace and thinking it doesn ... Limewashing or whitewashing can give you a ...

Microsoft has added some optional holiday effects ... the background. If you want to go all out, there's even an option to turn on an effect that turns the Bing homepage into a roaring fireplace ...

The answers to this question range from simply making the fireplace visually disappear ... help the "hulking mass" recede into the background. Another paint consideration is the sheen level ...