Fall Mantel Makeover

Welcome friends from Melissa’s Beautiful Life Fridays!

If your nesting instincts are kicking in, you’ll love this fabulous fall mantel makeover.

How many of you have this kind of stock mantel around your fireplace? Kinda boring and not much to write home about.

With the help of Caromal Colour paint, it was transformed into a stunning focal point! The owners discovered stone under the drywall – why would anyone drywall over this beautiful stone?

So off came the drywall and on went a couple more layers of molding to beef up the fireplace mantel to help bring it into proportion with the stone.

Then the painting began! They used a basecoat of the chocolate texture base coat from Caromal Colours.

Once that dried, they topped it with the chipping creme.  The chipping creme helps create a layered look when using two or more paint colors.

After the chipping creme dried, they applied a coat of the texture base coat in the color putty. The sanders and sand paper were used to give the mantel a distressed, vintage look once the putty base coat had dried.

The finished look is stunning! How warm and cozy does this look, especially for fall nesting season!

To see a step by step walk thru of the project, visit Country Living magazine.

Want to get this look for your own fireplace? Got flea market finds that need a facelift?

You can order Caromal Colours and get a discount on shipping using my “DevineD” code. Just put the code in the coupon code box when checking out.

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