Painting Brass Fireplace Doors
Your painted fireplace insert will look completely updated in 30 minutes or less.
Painting brass fireplace doors. So right before we headed to haiti rather than packing and prepping i decided to paint the paneling in in our living room. So i decided why not procrastinate packing a bit longer and spray paint a brass fireplace. Bright toned shiny brass is a common adornment for the doors of wood burning stoves and fireplace inserts. How to paint brass fireplace doors.
Lets talk about my fireplace. Your doors may be solid brass or brass plated steel a magnet will not stick to solid brass but in either case the process is the same. You can paint over brass fireplace doors but it s very important to use the right paint. Additionally since my glass doors were easily removable they just screwed off i took them off and covered the inside of the fireplace with plastic as well.
Eventually we d love to replace this wood burning. Painting brass fireplace doors was a great way to update our 1960s fireplace. Because fireplace doors get so hot you have to use a high heat paint. It brightened up the entire living room and made everything look better but it also accentuated the dated brass fireplace surround.
Spray paint your brass fireplace trim with this simple tutorial. Some high heat paints are not meant to be used with a primer so make sure you read the instructions on the can.