3 Most Simplistic Steps to Do in Whitewashing Brick with Gray Paint

As you can see in the picture, this chic living room design has an accent wall that is made from bricks, and the bricks have received color-wash process so that it gains grayish look.

One thing found to be interesting here is that the brick accent wall seems to be made from reclaimed bricks instead of new ones. While this may result in a more challenging color-washing process, this gives the interior space a very interesting rustic-looking accent wall.

The next example look you can see in the picture of transitional living room design above is quite interesting. There are several reasons why it is said so.

The first one is because of the oversize brick fireplace mantel that is made to be wall-size. And the second one is because the gray color used here seems to be greige instead of true gray.

This greige color is not only found to be a good pairing to the warm tones added to the room. It at the same time also boosts the warm and inviting atmosphere in the room.

Here is another inspirational look you can check out. It is especially when you are thinking about fireplace brick mantel color-washing.

The inspirational look you can see in the picture above is related more to the rather dark result. This makes the bricks own a color that is rather similar to the color of the concrete surface.

Especially for the brick surface in the picture, you can see it is located in a room with the warmer look. The existence of the brick fireplace mantel with darker gray tone then adds something to cool down the atmosphere in the interior space.

As told previously, color-washing is a process that can be done not only in interior space but also in the exterior area. The example of this can be seen in the before and after photos above.

Before the color-washing, the home exterior is dominated by red bricks walls and doors with penny brown color. After the color-washing, the wall color becomes grayish, and the color of the doors is made to look matching with new fossil gray color.

Just like what you see in the picture, the new color from the color-washing process gives good impact to the home exterior design. It is none other but a more refreshed look that makes the design better than before.

The gray-washed brick fireplace mantel is not only found to be suitable to pair with black modern standard fireplace.

Since the color can act somewhat neutral too, this can be paired with any color, including the golden color fireplace you can see in the picture above.

Other inspiration you should pay more attenti9n to is the way the bricks are gray-washed. It results in different gray shades because the wet paint seems to have changed thickness in the brick fireplace mantel design.

Another good inspirational look can be seen in this picture of the contemporary patio, in which a color-washed brick accent wall that also functions as fireplace mantel is included.

This one is inspirational because the way the color-washing process is done randomly leaves some tiny parts of the original brick color without any color-washing. This results in such a stunning rustic look of the brick wall.

The last but not least example look is in this picture of the exterior wall, which is color-washed with gray paint.

Of course, this one is a massive project and if you want to do such project more people are surely needed to make it faster.

See, the idea of whitewashing brick with gray paint is fascinating, right? More importantly, this can be done only in 3 simple steps as explained in this post.

One thing you should not forget when about to do this project is that planning is essential. This helps you to prepare anything more thoroughly, including also making the type of gray paint to use in finishing the plan to get the gray color you want the most.