Old fireplace, and current fireplace

No offense intended but the design almost looks cartoonish. It might help if the upper piece of surround didn't overhang the side pieces. The unstained/unpainted wood trim doesn't quite go with the stone surround either. Am going to suggest you consider a stain or paint for the trim. White is my first inclination but it would really take some experimenting to select the right color stain or paint. The mantel has a slight rustic quality in the photo, at least. Perhaps you should go for a sleeker look - maybe stone. Good luck!

Thanks. I mentioned in my post that the all of the wood trim is going to be painted white. The dark blue wall will be matched w/surrounding walls. I’m not re-doing it all, but I appreciate your suggestion to remove the overhang on the horizontal wood piece.

Remove the overhang on the wood trim. Replace the rustic mantel with a smooth white painted wood mantel.

Get the painting finished, and then repost, showing additional pictures of the room. Very hard to give advice in a vacuum.

It’s a bit better now… I had the extra few inches from the top horizontal piece of the wood trim cut off. I think it looks much better. Now it’s time for painting the wood trim white and the wall, our neutral wall color. I will post a photo when it’s completed.

This is my inspiration pic.. I may or may not be adding those extra window pane/frame type of pieces on the face of the wood trim. Thoughts?

Why would you be considering adding the “window pane“ when you just removed it from original?

Good question! I guess I’m just not sure how well the look will come together without it, and it looks nice in one of my inspiration pics. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m not talented or trained w/design, which is why I’m asking for input.

And I also think the panes look better w/just a couple of sections, as opposed to 4….but I’ll wait and see how I like it before adding any extra trim

The scale of the tile, the wood and the mantle is off....I wonder if the mantel were bigger if the scale would go together better... also consider painting the light wood the color of the wall to get the floating mantel look...verses white... but what do I know ...I have my head stuck in this ball..