Another improvement

Over the past few weekends we have been working on improving the brick on our fireplace. We just didn't like the look of the brick or the sloppy way that the mortar was applied. To me, the brick looked like a calico cat rubbed it's calico-ness all over it. It was very multi-colored and the mortar was gray. We decided to paint it and figured if we did not like the color we could very easily change that or we could pick out a tile and tile the hearth. The before shot you can see from a previous post (just click on these colored words) and here is the after photos: