I’ve run out of ideas here. We’re redoing the kitchen and dining (entire garden floor) in a sort of vintage style with white shaker style cabinets, open shelving, soapstone counters, subway tile backsplash, farmhouse sink. There is a bathroom in the back with white subway tile walls and black and white hex tile floor. The beams are lightly (about 1\/2 “) exposed and the floor will be a rich terracotta colored porcelain tile. There is a chimney in the dining area (the entire floor is open floor plan) which is lined and I plan to install a cast iron wood burning stove in front of it.
\nI cannot decide how to finish that chimney. Right now it has cement board (Durock) on it with metal studs behind.
\nI went through thinking about brick veneer (the original chimney brick was in really bad shape and could not be exposed, but maybe I should have had ‘new’ brick laid, anyways too late now; also see www.brickit.com), white subway tile with cobalt blue accents and borders and some blue handpainted tile accents (sort of a Delft style chimney, see pic) but thought that might be too kitchen-ey for the dining area, terracotta colored tile, soapstone tiles, slate tiles, flat slate slabs, etc. and cannot come up with any decisions. I do not like granite, but could deal with marble, however the stove might discolor it. And modern is not really my aesthetic.
\nAnyone dealt with the same problem? Any pics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve run out of ideas here. We’re redoing the kitchen and dining (entire garden floor) in a sort of vintage style with white shaker style cabinets, open shelving, soapstone counters, subway tile backsplash, farmhouse sink. There is a bathroom in the back with white subway tile walls and black and white hex tile floor. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-26872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fireplacemantle"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/12\/need-fireplace-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Need fireplace finish ideas","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/12\/need-fireplace-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/12\/need-fireplace-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Fireplace\/Mantle","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ohiise"}],"creator":["ohiise"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-12-10T11:38:32Z","datePublished":"2008-12-10T11:38:32Z","dateModified":"2008-12-10T11:38:32Z"},"rendered":"