When we purchased this investment property last year, one of the things I knew I wanted to change was the fireplace in the living room. It?s a focal point in the home and the first thing you see when you walk in the front door. I wanted it to wow a future buyer and make it a selling point too.
Over the weekend we finished the tile, grout, and Matt built a new mantel with the help of my dad. I love the look of this newly remodeled fireplace!
 
 
This is what the fireplace looked like when we bought this house. Not horrible with its basic ceramic tile and a plain mantel that matched the light beige walls, but not very exciting either. And what?s up with that tiny sliver of tile in the middle" That was bugging me.
 
  The first thing we did was remove the old tile. Originally I wanted to remove the hearth base and have only the sides of the fireplace meet the floor, but when I opted for luxury vinyl plank flooring instead of tile flooring I had to keep the hearth base in place for fire safety. Tearing out the old tile destroyed the drywall so it needed to be replaced.
 
The surround and base also required new drywall before the new tile could be applied.
 
Once those steps were completed I went shopping for tile. There?s a huge Floor & Decor store 20 minutes from this house in Las Vegas so I stopped in to look for something that would work well for the design I had in mind. I wasn?t disappointed, I found the perfect marble stone tile, this is the Golden ...