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Natural stone fireplace painted white - yuck

I bought a home with a large natural stone fireplace - it's the focal point on one wall.  However, the previous owner painted the entire thing white.  I've asked several painters and they say I can't get the paint off short of sandblasting. Any other idea on how to remove the paint from the stone and grout/mortar?  How would I go about faux painting it?  Thanks so much!


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We had the same situation.  A movie company filmed a movie in our house and wanted true stone colors on our white painted flagstone fireplace. Their design artist used acrylic paints ( in tubes)  matching flagstone rock colors. She hand rubbed each stone with a rag using various muted colors...the results were a fantastic warm look instead of the white sterile look.  It was a bit time consuming...took her 1 day, But we loved It.  We actually had a dual sided fireplace and she graciously did the other side for us as well.
Posted 2009-05-26T00:12:08Z
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