Ruth in Richmond

We have a brick wall behind a fireplace with three bricks that are set out and I wanted some advice on changing the look of that wall. Carolyn had a lot of great ideas, and in particular, she had some wonderful structural ideas. She definitely knew what was behind the brick because she does construction.

We are wanting to change the wall behind a fireplace - it's an entire wall of brick. It has three jut-out bricks and I wanted advice on whether we should take those down and how. Stephanie has some great ideas about floating shelving and how to paint the wall and some ideas about the living room in general about how to make it all come together.