Fireplace refinishing · Pierce County, Washington

Same fireplace.
Different room.

Nothing stripped. Nothing sanded down. Nothing torn out. Brick, stone, tile, and the woodwork around them — refinished in place. The colour changes; the fireplace stays exactly where it is.

  • No demolition, no stripping
  • Furniture covered, floors protected
  • Free quotes from a photo
A red brick fireplace halfway through being painted white, blue painter's tape still masking the edges
HalfwayThe left side is how this one started. The right side is the same brick, once the work was under way.

The fireplace isn't the problem.
The finish is.

Nearly every fireplace we're called out to is perfectly sound. It's just forty years old — orange brick, an oak mantel gone yellow, tile nobody would pick now. The finish is what dates it, so the finish is what changes.

No demolition, no dust barriers, no tearing out and rebuilding. The fireplace you have stays the fireplace you have — it just stops dating the room around it.

The work

Before, and after

A full brick wall taken from pale and dated to a deep slate, with the mantel picked out in white.

A pale brick fireplace with a raised hearth, before refinishing
BeforePale, flat, and doing nothing for the room around it.
The same fireplace refinished in a deep slate tone with a white painted mantel and corbels
AfterDeep slate brick, white mantel and corbels, hearth left as it was.

An older photograph of the same fireplace, before and after.

What we do

Brick, stone, tile and wood

01

Painted brick

The biggest change you can make to a living room in a day. Orange, blotchy or dark brick becomes one clean surface — soft white, warm grey, deep charcoal, whatever suits the room.

02

Whitewash & limewash

For when you like the texture of your brick but not the colour. A thinner, worked-in finish that lets the character underneath show through rather than covering it flat.

03

Wood mantels

Yellowed oak and tired pine restained to a deeper, more even tone, then sealed. Or painted out entirely, if the wood isn't the part you love. Either way the mantel stops fighting the rest of the room.

04

Hearths & surrounds

The raised hearth and the surround around the opening, brought in line with everything else, so the fireplace reads as one piece instead of three.

Surround, mantel and hearth face. Not inside the firebox, and no gas, venting or structural work.

How it goes

Four steps, and three are yours

  1. 01

    Send a photo

    Use the form below to tell us about your fireplace. We'll write back and let you know where to send a photo — a phone picture is plenty.

  2. 02

    Get a price

    In writing, and it covers the work, the finish and the Washington sales tax — so the number you're given is the number you pay.

  3. 03

    Pick your colour

    Samples come to you, held against your own wall in your own light. Take as long as you like — everyone does.

  4. 04

    The work gets done

    Taped off, floors covered, painted and cleaned up — with the furniture put back where it was before we leave.

How we work

Careful, and finished when we say

Fireplace Face Lifts has been refinishing brick, stone and mantels for years, and it's the only thing we do. Not a sideline of a painting business — the fireplace is the whole job.

Floors covered, furniture moved back where it was, edges taped and cut clean. And if something turns up once the work starts, you'll hear about it straight away — before it costs you anything.

Where we work

Pierce County and the towns around it

We keep the service area deliberately tight, so the towns we cover are the towns we know.

  • Fife
  • Milton
  • Edgewood
  • Puyallup
  • Federal Way
  • Tacoma
  • Sumner
  • Auburn

Get a quote

Tell us about your fireplace

A sentence or two is plenty to start. Say if you'd rather send a picture and we'll tell you where.

Quotes
Free, and in writing
To get one
A photo is enough
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Includes WA sales tax

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