Craving some color and warmth in her living room, @paintedfarmhouse painted her fireplace this beautiful moody blue color (Arabian Night by Sherwin-Williams). Notice the paint extends to the crown ...

Paint it white to create a textured backdrop that keeps the focus on the fireplace. For a cottage look, whitewash your brick fireplace and install a large rustic mantel on a shiplap wall.

After all, she fitted her own fireplace and then painted it a very fetching ... The good thing about a white fireplace, as designer Luke Edward Hall proves here, it gives you an empty canvas ...