Gorgeous DIY Faux Stone Fireplace Makeover

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A big thanks to AirStone for partnering with Domestically Speaking on our fireplace!  What a transformation!  We recently made a big update in our family room with a gorgeous DIY faux stone fireplace makeover.  It’s amazing what a change this has made to our family room.  It feels cozier.  It looks amazing, just like natural stone.  And it was an easy DIY project that you could tackle.

Materials and Tools for Faux Stone Fireplace

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• Airstone Faux Stone
• Airstone Adhesive
• putty knife
• hacksaw or wet saw

We installed the AirStone from floor to ceiling in our fireplace transformation.  Airstone offers 3 color combos, we selected Birch Bluff.  I loved it because it fit perfectly in our home’s color palette. It has browns, grays, and white shades.

AirStone also has Autumn Mountain which has beautiful, warm brown tones and they offer Spring Creek which has a variety of gorgeous grays.

So let’s get into the install-info!

How do you apply stone veneer to a fireplace?

So start you need a clean, mostly intact, mostly smooth wall. In the photo above you can see that there’s bits of the drywall that is missing when we removed the tile that was around the fireplace. There’s no reason that you need to smooth that out. You just need a surface that with adhesive the faux stone can stick to.

In the photo above you can see on the far left side their finished edge stone.  This makes finishing off an edge super easy.  It also comes with matching corner pieces that you can create a corner edge with.

So you have regular pieces and you have finished edge pieces.  They come in various lengths and they come in two different heights – 2 inches and 4 inches.  Airstone is made from 70% recycled material which helps to keep the product light yet it’s super durable.

There are various ways you can cut Airstone.  We had our wet saw out from doing our backsplash, so we used that during our install process.  You can use a hack saw though… so super user-friendly!

Airstone has an adhesive for indoor installation.  All you need is a putty knife to spread it on the back of the stone.  You want to spread it on like frosting!

We started on the bottom left corner and started working our way up to the top of the fireplace opening.  Making sure to mix up the sizes and vary the colors as we went gave us the look we wanted.

Once we finished the left side to the fireplace opening, I worked on the right side.  When we went across the top of the fireplace opening we used a level to pencil a line at the bottom of where the stone needed to sit.  We used various boards to help keep them stabilized until the stone dried for a couple of hours.

We kept working our way up until we reached the ceiling.  This DIY project took us about a week, spending a couple of hours on it each day.  This is definitely a doable DIY project for a beginner!!!  Airstone has great videos on its site to help you work through all the steps of this faux stone veneer fireplace.

Look at the textures and the variety of colors!  It really does look and feel like real stone!

Here it is with our fireplace all decked out for fall. We absolutely love how the faux-stacked stone fireplace turned out. The variation of colors perfectly blends in our home. We love the texture and warmth it brings to our family room and we LOVED how easy it was to install.  So if you’re thinking about making over your fireplace I highly recommend you check out AirStone.

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