How to paint back a brick-look on painted bricks. http://handygoddess.com Tips on how to paint back a brick-like look on brick that has been painted over. Go to http://www.fauxfun.com/Videos/RocksBlocksBricks/RockBlocksBricksIndex.html for more faux painting demonstrations on painting a faux bricks, faux blocks and a faux rock decorative faux paint technique.

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[Background Music Playing] She is happy. She is at home and she is here to empower you. She is the Handy Goddess. Look what we have here. We have this fireplace and it has been painted over. It was really a nice brick and someone just took white paint and painted over the place. So, what I am going to do is bring this thing back to life and make it look it is brick again. And you know what; this is so easy to do. So let us get started. What I want you to do is take your paint brush, we are going to have a color that would be the overall color that you would like this to be, it can be a little bit darker than what you might anticipate this to be in the end, okay. And then, what I want you to do is simply mix it with a little bit of Casein medium, you know, maybe one part paint, two parts medium. And then we are going to simply brush it on it and brush it into the grout like areas and then take a flat sponge and really spread it all around. I will go over the whole fireplace just like this. Oh! Yes, that step is done. Now, there is one more thing that I want you to do and that is I want you to take another color of lighter color and your flat sponge. What I want you to do is just like paint a little bit on the top of your sponge -- just there and I want you to just glide over the bricks like this and you are really going to highlight them. All right, there we go, we are finish. Does not that look nice, it is just a whole new fireplace, oh! We brought it back to what it was or something similar. [Music Playing]