Faux Lav Tile Fireplace Makeover

Mission accomplished! The antique spinach dip tile on the dining room fireplace has been successfully disguised amongst removable panels. Apologies, Rookwood fans. But don't despair. If someday you lot purchase this household from us, you lot tin trace off these sheets of embossed thermoplastic together with the spinach dip volition live yours to enjoy. Yum.

I used Fasade backsplash sheets for this makeover, which I get-go saw inwards a rack at Home Depot. They're lightweight, tardily to cut, together with since this isn't a working fireplace, they're non going to melt. After gleefully hatching my plan, I contacted the manufacturer to run into if they'd shipping gratuitous tiles for this experiment inwards telephone commutation for reporting on the projection (success or epic fail). Score! So a huge give thank you lot you to Fasade.


Fasade panels come upward inwards different sizes for walls, ceilings, together with backsplashes inwards a diverseness of finishes together with designs: modern, traditional, together with industrial. I chose from the traditional category to jibe the await of the mantel, together with selected the pattern amongst the smallest repeat so that to a greater extent than than i foursquare would present along the sides of the fireplace cover. Traditional 6 inwards Brushed Nickel was my alternative (the left-most swatch inwards the Before photograph together with the occur swatch above).


I measured the swatches together with determined that each repeat is a 3" square. I made a quick diagram inwards Illustrator to run into how many 18" x 24" backsplash sheets I'd need, colouring cloth coding each panel to present where the leftover cutouts could live used. Six sheets would practice the job.


Supplies included a cutting mat, utility knife, ruler (this plastic quilting i didn't slide to a greater extent than or less equally much equally my metallic cork-backed one), record measure, kitchen pair of scissors for trimming off extra bits, together with a Sharpie. I hung the panels amongst a combination of poster putty together with self-adhesive foam tape.

Removal instructions on the mounting record nation that brushing security cement onto whatever left-behind goo volition instruct inwards tardily to rub off the mucilaginous residual amongst your finger. So I'm confident these volition come upward off without harming the tile.


Each panel is covered amongst a protective plastic celluloid you lot take away at the halt of the job. I marked my cuts on the celluloid amongst a Sharpie, together with subsequently the celluloid peeled off, no markings showed on the in conclusion panels. For each cut, I scored the panel past times sliding a utility knife along a ruler a yoke times. No ask to cutting all the agency through— merely curvature the panel dorsum together with forth along the score together with it volition snap apart.


The fireplace required a ridiculous disclose of cuts inwards the flooring panels to instruct them to fit to a greater extent than or less the mantel pillars. I drew a diagram on newspaper for those together with labeled the length together with placement of each of the dozen-or-so cuts needed for each piece. They ended upward also snug inwards a yoke spots so I trimmed off bits amongst a pair of scissors until the panels fit.


Tedious but worth it.




Once all the pieces were cutting to size, I peeled off the protective films together with stuck the panels to the tile. In a yoke spots the one-time tile was sunken in, so I built upward those areas amongst poster putty. I set minor pieces of foam adhesive record inwards the corners of each panel together with i or 2 along the seams. Fasade panels are designed to overlap i some other at the edges, so I made certain to apply the panels inwards the correct order.


So much better! (Hey look, there's the head.) Next project: to a greater extent than wallpaper. Why halt amongst merely an accent wall? We're going to comprehend the whole room. It's going to live crazy together with wonderful. Or crazy together with terrible, which is a distinct possibility, but we're going for it. If you lot intend this is a bad idea, don't state me. I'm certain I've already had every persuasion that has merely flitted through your mind, together with and so I squelched them inwards my enthusiasm for making a room that is different whatever dining room I've been inwards before.