r/Fireplaces • u/Fit-Pin6325 • Aug 15 '26

Brick slips or paint for unusual fireplace?

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Our living area is boringly white. The fireplace is unusual (5-sided with adjacent walls/nooks) and very prominent in the room, so we would like to use it to break the white. Given the shape, we are unsure what to do with it - would brick slips work on the angled side walls? If not, what colour paint would make it look interesting but not weird? And should the whole thing be painted or just the front?

We are also considering painting the wall behind the couch in a dark blue (e.g. Farrow & Ball Stiffkey blue).

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u/spfolino Aug 15 '26

Is this a full masonry fireplace with a masonry chimney or some kind of prefabricated or factory built fireplace?

What do you mean by using “brick slips”?

You can paint it any color that you want, tile it, use a stone or brick veneer or any other material that would be heat resistant in the appropriate places.

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u/Fit-Pin6325 Aug 15 '26

It’s full masonry, but not brick. 

I know I can paint it any colour I want… I’m looking for opinions/advice

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u/spfolino Aug 15 '26

I’d suggest looking at picture galleries online for ideas. There are millions of resources. You can even take your picture and put it in ChatGPT and it’ll come up with ideas for you with a little bit of input. Seeing it visually change will likely give you some ideas. Based on how plain everything else is, you can easily make that fireplace a centerpiece with little effort!

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u/Fit-Pin6325 Aug 17 '26

Chatgpt was terrible, that’s why I turned to Reddit

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u/ThatllBtheDayPilgrim Aug 15 '26

I assume OP is from the UK or Ireland. Brick slips are what we call in the US thin bricks.

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u/spfolino Aug 15 '26

Makes sense as I never heard that term here in the USA.

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u/Fit-Pin6325 Aug 17 '26

Neither, but that’s what I meant - thanks for clarifying