![]() We thought about drywalling over the tile, which I’ve heard can be done but isn’t necessarily a good option. I called them and asked about going over tile and they didn’t really suggest it. Portola Paints Roman Clay is recommended to go over a smooth, flat surface (like drywall). We did something similar when we tiled over tile in our half bathroom but this was going to be a slightly different process. And it would have been a HUGE mess to rip off all the tile – so we decided to go right over it! ![]() The shape was clean and modern so we didn’t need to restructure it at all. Our biggest obstacle of course was that we didn’t want to rip out our existing fireplace. I had seen a bunch of other bloggers and instagrammers use Portola Paints Roman Clay to achieve the smooth cloudy finish so I started looking into that. Plaster isn’t as popular as it used to be, so it’s a little tricky finding someone to do it.Ī lot of guys who used to do plaster have turned into drywall guys so you could always try searching for someone in that speciality if you don’t want to do it yourself.įor us, I started realizing it would just be easier to do it ourselves, so I needed to figure out what product would give us the best results. I reached out to a local guy who gave me some samples of his plaster which was NOT what I wanted at all. I took you all through the process of renovating the fireplace in the kids playroom on instagram but I promised you a blog post too so here it is! I’ll walk you through all the steps we took to create our DIY Roman Clay Fireplace, going right over the existing tile.įrom the start, I knew I wanted a plaster type finish but wasn’t sure exactly how we were going to achieve that.
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