How To Tile Over Brick Fireplace Surround

The Fireplace Before

I’ve never liked my old fireplace surround. There was nothing really wrong with it, other than it’ wasn’t quite my style. It had a very traditional trim and bright red bricks that match the exterior of our house.

Redoing the fireplace was among many other things on my list. I would have liked to get to it eventually and probably hire a professional to do it. However, I tasted the liberating possibility that comes with owning a saw and a nail gun. The bug got into my head that I could attempt to do it myself.

Break It Down, Build It Up

I had stared at that hateful fireplace long enough, so I just took a hammer and a screwdriver to it. I removed the outer trim pieces as well as the dentil and crown molding that you see still attached in the above photo.

What followed was a trip to Home Depot to purchase a table saw and a sheet of plywood. I ripped the sheet down to create the boxes that make up the two columns and the flat horizontal piece in the middle.

Trim

The rest was the “easy” simple part – adding trim to the outside to make it look pretty. I was really nervous about the crow molding because I didn’t think I could do it. I had tried a number of times in the past to cut crown molding but couldn’t wrap my mind around it

Conquering crown molding is probably one of the proudest moments of my life. I feel like I can do anything now!

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