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More and more people are buying newly built homes these days and a lot of the time, the designs are standard from house to house. If you have a fireplace in your newly built home chances are that when it was installed, they only put a small mantel overhead rather than a large surround. The mantel is much less expensive and you do not have to worry about matching a surround to the color of paint you put o the wall or the furniture you bring into the room. But, after you move in and start to decorate how you want, you might consider installed a fireplace surround.

Surround come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Sometimes they are just an area around the fireplace with straight lines and a similar shape to the firebox. Other times, they are ornate pieces of art that arch about the existing infrastructure. The easiest thing to do is just to add the surround on top of the existing wall. With that being said, you need to make sure that the wall is clean and free of any bumps or imperfections in the wall.

One of the most popular choices is tiled fireplace surrounds. You can apply your tile directly to the drywall or painted wall. You just need to get some adhesive and a tile design. You can use whole tiles in one or more solid colors. Alternatively, you could break several tiles and make a mosaic picture. Just make sure that the grout is something that can get warm because it will right next to the fireplace.

Brick fireplace patterns are also very popular. A brick fireplace surround makes your living room or family room feel like a ski resort or a comfy mountain cabin. You can lay the brick directly over the wall just like with the tiles, but beware that the bricks will come out a lot farther than tile. However, there are brick façade pieces that are like tile because they lay flat against the wall and are not thicker than a tile. In addition they come in all the well known brick colors.