Before changing anything in your kitchen, check with lighting specialists at either your local Home Depot or local electrician. You can see in your photo that the under cabinet lights read yellow...they can be changed to read "daylight" and thus brighten your counter ...same for lights on fireplace. I think your painting over the fireplace is not right for that space...the lines run horizontal as does the stone....neither looks its best.

Beautiful fireplace! Putting the right size accessories will make all the difference in the world and will freshen the look.

I like it. I would hang a large square lightweight canvas print [you can usually wiggle a nail in between stones]

updating backsplash and/or counters will be a good update.

Looks like you are accessorizing with a color [I think blue based on things in your room picture] which is great way to break up the browns.

A throw blanket over back of couch, pretty colorful pillows on couch. Vases, etc.

We had a massive stone fireplace and tore it out. Best single decision we made. It had way too much visual power in the room. The redesigned one is smaller. We now have a traditional brick fireplace that plays nice with the rest of the house.

That certainly is massive. Definitely no to paint. If you remove the stone, then your off center fireplace will be more noticeable.

Why can’t you do white counters/backsplash with the existing stone?

I fear the yellow under stone of the stone will be more profound if the kitchen is lightened. The kitchen and fireplace are every shade of brown with too much yellow tone for my liking.

LOVE the fireplace ❤️. It’s spectacular.

The tones of the fireplace are completely natural. You're not limited to brown -- rustic greens will work beautifully with that stone as will soft creams (not all creams have an overt yellow tone) as a wall color. On my monitor your walls looks grey, which isn't bringing out the best in the stone, tonally it's a mis-match.

I know you asked about the kitchen -- I still think light cream counters would be great, as I said above, and you could pair that with a soft green backsplash and pull the green into the living room (either green walls or soft cream walls with green accessories).

Seriously -- you're fireplace is gorgeous...run with it. You have many, many options because of the natural tones of it but don't try to make the space something it's not -- embrace the naturalness of it and let it be the star.

Not the same tones as your fireplace, but look how beautiful a rich, rustic green looks against a strong stone feature, and also note the cream walls here aren't overtly yellow:

If you don't want to go dark, here's an example of cream walls against stone and wood -- would be much better than the grey walls you have (or white that's reading grey on my monitor); it's warm but not yellow:

Thanks! Yes, the walls are Agreeable Grey and the carpet is grey as well. Do you think I can just paint the wall around the fireplace? If we go beyond that, there isn’t a good stopping point. We bought the house 2 years ago, replaced carpet throughout and painted the entire interior. It was all VERY brown and that is just not my preference, I’m more cool and appreciate the feedback.

"Do you think I can just paint the wall around the fireplace?"

Depends on the rest of the space. If you start mixing warm and cool wall colors, you're probably going to run into trouble at some point. You could always paint all the walls and get some big area rugs to cover the grey carpet, at least in the room with the fireplace. Some paint colors will play nice with both warm and cool tones, but I'm not a paint color expert so not much help there.

Best to leave the fireplace unpainted and plain. Find a complementary art work the same size as the very nice one you have and put one art work on each side of the fireplace.

I know you said you don't like the brown, but the gray really doesn't work with the fireplace you have. Note the creamy color in this photo. You could go in this direction but add art work and accent pieces that have warm gold and blue from your current and possible new art. Also consider removing the doors on the wood storage cabinet and putting a huge pile of birch logs inside. Add more logs like that in the firebox.

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Painting side of place. You could do one on each side.

Open wood alcove on fireplace. Remove your doors if that cabinet is for wood:

Great ideas, however , cabinet is for TV. Hubby and family would not be pleased. Only TV on the main level.

I agree with @cupofkindnessgw. The fireplace is waaaay to overpowering for the space, IMO. The room is too narrow for the massive floor-to-ceiling width. I do love the bottom portion, with the doors, etc.

You could eliminate the top part, narrow the bottom, and paint the remaining brick. You could even replace the stone on the hearth with something updated to coordinate with your new countertop choice.

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Awesome!

Ha! Well, I think you could get one of those fire videos, light a fire in the fireplace. Honestly, I think that fireplace is great! Start an Ideabook of "Tall stone fireplaces" and do searches on Houzz and Pinterest for ideas. Most little pieces on the mantel, fake plants, draw attention to the size. Go bold. Your art work should be on the wall . This palette painted the same size as yours would look great with each of them flanking the fireplace. It's got the warm tones of the stone but some of the cool colors you like. What doesn't work are the gray walls though you can get away with gray carpeting.

Nothing I can see ...says that fireplace belongs there...too big ...too rustic...makes the furniture look minuscule...something sleek ...simple...architectural...much more appropriate...the height and size of the wall is enough drama

I think your wall color and lighting is really the culprit here. It may be worth your while to hire an Interior Decorator ( and I don't say that often!) t to help you come up with a whole plan for both spaces before you start ripping things out. With a plan, you'll have a clear vision and won't be wasting money. And not a "designer" but an actual ID that you feel gets what you are trying to achieve.

You may glean some info from this site. Not only about Kelvins and lighting but also paint.

https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/how-light-bulbs-affect-paint-colours-kelvins/

Side comment - ya know what bothers me? fp that are 2 stories high and narrow! talk about proportions being off. I almost ga ga when I saw yours. :)

Your leather furniture is very good.

The room is 19.5’ wide and the fireplace is 11.5’. It would fit perfectly in a mountain lodge or castle, just not so much in a suburban single family home

Oh my. I didn't realize your room was relatively small to carry off such a large fireplace. Some of these builders throw these jaw dropping features into houses without much thought of proportion and appropriateness. Someone upthread removed theirs, which seems a crime when the stone itself is so beautiful. But maybe somebody's building a lodge someplace and could use it!

Idk if said already, but why not lighten the doors and mantel a bit? Ceiling fan in medium tone would reduce dark.

Your backsplash isn't prominent like uppers are - I'd try a neutral, maybe see it as a historic color... something like your wall paint.

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This is a picture of the fireplace wall that I renovated about 15 years ago. I redecorated the room about five years ago. The fireplace we had was massive: it went from door to door (that's about 12 feet wide) and to the ceiling, which is also about 12 feet high. It was made of off-white limestone, but the stone wasn't cut, the builder simply smashed larger stones and set them in place, filling the gaps with chips of stone. I agree with the statement that builders put in these features, which are probably far cheaper than a home buyer would imagine, to impress them. I love the change!

White wash would help brighten it and bring it into a new white bright space

If you keep the fireplace I would suggest a technique called German smear. It essentially is applying grout to the face of the stone to not only change the color but also soften the hardness of the stone up a bit. Example photo below.

What about.... an enzyme or smear on the fireplace to soften it and then in kitchen, perhaps, change out backsplash, granite and paint island lighter color to tie in room.

Just a suggestion regarding the door covering the TV in the fireplace; disguise it with thin round wood discs. Photos attached.

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