Fireplace Wall Color Ideas for Your Home
Do you remember the first time you were taken back by a color? Whether it was a sherbet sunset or the deepest of royal blues, color takes us on a journey from start to finish. If you’re gearing up to paint your fireplace wall, there’s a few things you want to keep in mind.
Although you may have a knee-jerk reaction to a color that immediately sticks out, do a little research and sit on it for 24 to 48 hours. It goes a long way in making the perfect decision for your home.
How to begin choosing a color for your fireplace wall
Determining the color of a paint job is all about acknowledging the temperature of your environment. Does your living room sway with warm tones and earthy accents? Or is it cool central, bursting with violets and deep greens?
You’ll also want to take a peek at your furniture and accompanying accents. If your couch is chartreuse velvet, you’ll definitely want to make that color pop, and it’s possible to have it all, where both colors feed perfectly off of each other.
What color is your fireplace brick?
There’s a million moving pieces when it comes to painting a fireplace wall in your home. The entire room needs to be considered from all angles. The floor, the ceiling, the accents and the rest. It might not feel like those pieces are essential, but when the whole picture comes together, it’s better to have given a glance through your peripherals than not visualizing at all.
When you step back and look at your fireplace, what do you see? Is the color of your brick a deep burgundy? Can you see the flames dancing off the colors reflection? If your fireplace mantle is anything like everyone else’s, it’s long overdue for a little pick me up.
What color flooring do you have?
Floors are the rug that really ties the room together, as the Big Lebowski coined. No matter if you’re refinishing pure hardwood, a Spanish tile or some classic, luxury vinyl, the color of your floor will spend the rest of its life complementing the color you choose for your new fireplace.
Walls and floors hug each other. They create the perfect canvas to highlight the beautiful contrast between two colors. They each bring their own shade to life, and when combined, they do their best work.
Color choices to enhance your brick fireplace
Color is arguably the most exciting part of the job. Scanning through palettes until you reach one that nestles right up into your bones is exhilarating, but when you find the one, it truly feels a little bit like home. Sherwin Williams colors have a wide range and healthy spectrum. Whether you’re buying spray paint, dialing in neutral colors or in need of heat resistant paint, they’ve got everything you need and more.
Cayenne
There’s something so nostalgic about Cayenne. It’s a color that represents entirely too many things to categorize it, from the rust on your grandfather’s old Chevy to the depths of Georgia clay. Cayenne is one of those colors that grows on you, even if it doesn’t immediately strike a chord. Its warmth makes it malleable, and it's a true call back to the classic brick color.
Saguaro
This particular shade between green, olive and a touch of chartreuse brings about a Victorian sentiment. It is so dynamic that it transcends most of the rules we've written for ourselves about color theory. Its abundant presence offers a sense of elegance and edge, all wrapped up into one shade.
Porch Ceiling
No, really. Porch Ceiling is the type of blue that makes you want to write an apology love letter when you don’t even have a significant other. It’s an homage to the classic Haint blue and it somehow still stands tough on its own. Porch Ceiling is a reflective shade, and even though it falls in the cool blue spectrum, light will be bouncing off of every inch.
This gives your fireplace a true opportunity to be the focal point of the room. And although this shade of blue may seem nontraditional (it is), it doesn’t mean that with the right accents, you can find yourself staring at a stunning display.
Hire a professional painter for your interior fireplace walls
Hiring a professional painter to explore interior paint colors is truly the only real route to a job well done. Any and everything that might come up along the way, your professional paint team can help you resolve.
Old Crow Painting
At Old Crow Painting, we pride ourselves on the connection between a fresh start and a new leaf. There’s nothing we love more than helping our clients rejuvenate their spaces, and as a result, everything else, too. If you’re interested in scheduling a job for that fireplace wall, give us a caw!