Would you consider painting it a nice fresh white and contrast it with a sharp black high gloss fireplace gate and accessories? That would definately make it pop against your newly painted blue walls. I feel like brick can look very dated. Hope this helps

Can you please post a photo of the firplace shot from a distance to see the area on each side :)

Here are a couple additional photos from our final walk through, before we purchase the home. As you can see thie fireplace and the window takes up a large protion of this wall. And the other wall is all windows making a place to put a tv extremely difficult.

Now look at the last picture
the red bricks are on the floor but you get theidea of the yellow and grey and how well they all work together
,all of thse will make your fireplace belong and alive ,


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Great pictures thank you , you could begingby painting the walls ,adding colour to this room will give your fireplace more character and it wont look so lonely in an all white room . look into my idea page I have some posted in there , I will be posting more to this in a bit .


Okay ,you mentioned the grey sofa ,so I would paint the room yellow ,about the mantel of the fireplace that can either be painted or removed ,but I saw the little stockings hanging on it so we must leave a little spot for Santa to fill them up , therefore I would paint that in a brown or a similar shade as the bricks
now here is a picture to help you visualize the colours
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I know that this is a bit early for it ,but I couldn't resist :)

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I personally like your fireplace, but not the white mantle. Change that back to a dark color, and find a really nice painting with lots of color. Minimal decor on the mantle itself.