My prayers are with you and I think your fireplace looks old world now. I am 74 yrs. old and I learned a long time ago to take care of what I can accomplish and leave the rest to God. Have a wonderfully blessed day.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

That is some of the best advice!! I just need to keep reminding myself. A friend once told me to “Let go, and let God” Easier said than done for me. You’re prayers mean more than you know!!! Thank you!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Oh sweetie. I found you because I'm wanting to do 'something' to my fireplace. I love your message. And your husband has incredible insight at a young age. I'm 66. Looking back, it is so easy to lose yourself 'in the mission'. God bless you doll! And thank you for sharing fails, success, perseverance, and love. ❤️ new fan

@opendoorsopenhearts

16 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for coming by to watch. And for sharing that encouragement!! Have a great weekend!!

Can here to get some advice on a project and for some meaningful wisdom! What a blessing! Thank you!

@opendoorsopenhearts

16 күн бұрын

Your welcome! Have a great weekend

Getting ready to lime wash my fireplace and really appreciated all the tips! I think yours turned out beautifully and I hope you are enjoying it as time has passed. I also appreciated you sharing your heart and encouragement at the end. Added bonus! Thank you!

@opendoorsopenhearts

16 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! 🤍

Thank you for the words at the end of your video. I came to watch for lime wash tips -- and then you re-set my thoughts. My husband and I are in our 70's and just moved into a home that needs quite a bit of updating. I lost my "mission" while painting and not getting the results I wanted. I needed to hear what you shared even more than I need stone painting information. Little did I know. I subscribed and will be watching your progress. Thank you very much.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Your message is exactly why I share at the end of my videos like that. It's easy to get running at such high speeds that we forget to slow down and soak in all the good going on around us. We can get wrapped up in the daily tasks that we forget all to step back. Thanks so much for sharing your heart with me. It means more than you know!

Thank you for all your helpful tips. I love your spirit and positivity.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

You are so welcome

You are amazing. You are wonderful homeschooling your babies. The fireplace looks great and the tips are appreciated Be kind to yourself. You’re doing great ❤

@opendoorsopenhearts

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for those sweet words!! Now that we’ve been living with the fireplace the way it is, I think you’re right! It wasn’t the goal, but it’s still beautiful!! Thanks so much for watching. Have a great week!!

What a beautiful fireplace but even more what a beautiful message you shared. You touched my heart. God bless you and your sweet husband.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm so glad that you felt encouraged!! I hope you have a great rest of your week!!

Thanks for sharing this video. It's a messy process, but so worth it!. Your fp brick looks great. Thanks for your honesty in facing the joys and stress of motherhood, and how God will get you through it all. You have a lot on your plate, and you just have to get up everyday and view it as a gift. Your children are a gift, and God will get you through anything you will face.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Amen! You are soo right! It is such a gift to get to live the life I have. We had small group last night and one thing led to another and the mamas were talking about how hard it is taking care of sick littles, but then someone said, "But you'd never choose to do it any differently, would you?" NO MA''AM!! I'd take all of the day's challenges easily over going back to working outside the home full-time! Thank you so much for continuing to help me keep my eyes focused on the eternal things! Have a great rest of your week!

What a blessing this video is. Thank you! Lime washing our space this week. ❤

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! How did the limewash go for you? I hope it went better than our first attempt haha! Have a great weekend!

Thank you for your encouraging words and Honesty! I can't count the times I've "failed" to achieve what I had intended. However, what you created looks beautiful! Can't wait to see it finished!!!! Ty again for your Honesty!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Mema!! I’m so anxious to get it finished!!!

I love what you've done to your fireplace. Don't stress yourself out, you've done a great job👍

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Wow! Thank you so much for this video! I just came across it randomly tonight, and it's 12:41am as I'm still up working, and your message really touched me and is something I needed to hear! Sometimes, a lot of times, I get caught up in the day to day grind, and it's easy to lose sight of what really matters. Thank you for listening to your prompting to share! And although I know it's not the exact look you were going for, I do think your fireplace is beautiful!

@opendoorsopenhearts

11 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm so glad that you enjoyed my little chat at the end. Sharing from the heart is scary, but I've found that it results in more good than bad. Have a great week!

You and your family are so sweet!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you for your helpful video! I am considering doing this to my fireplace so I started hunting for how-to videos. Also, thank you for your encouragement. I am a homeschooling mom also and we have a small farm as of three years ago. We just closed on our first rental property. Even in our failures and triumphs God is good and upholds us.

@opendoorsopenhearts

16 күн бұрын

You sound so much like us!! We did rental properties before we bought the farm, but one day we were praying and separately my husband and I both heard God tell us to sell. So even though we didn’t want to, we did. We still miss the real estate part of our lives and hope and pray God releases us to do it again. Have a great weekend!!!

The fireplace looks beautiful. That's not a failure at all. Yes you had to spend a bit more time to distress it because of the delay, but the end goal is the same. Congrats!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! Those words of encouragement mean so much to me!! I’m so grateful you decided to take the time to leave this comment!! Thank you for watching! Have a wonderful day!!

Wow this look beautiful! Very upscale and I love it! Thank you for sharing your story.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Such beautiful sharing! Thank you!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thank you for watching! Means so much!

Thank you for taking the time to share your tips!

@opendoorsopenhearts

10 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!!

Great info! I'm just about to do mine, and I'm so glad I watched this first. It does look amazing though!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! I’m glad it was a helpful video!! Can’t wait for you to do your fireplace!!

I think the fireplace looks beautiful, and I needed to hear that message!!! Thank you for sharing it. ❤

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Thank you for sharing your project! We need to limewash our fireplace. I’m so nervous!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!! I promise it’s not as scary as it feels…although I was nervous too!! But my best advice is give yourself plenty of day light hours so you can see how it is looking as you go. Putting it all on then going to bed is not the best course of action haha

Thanks for your talk. May the Lord bless you in your mission. Sounds like you are doing the Lord's work. Be blessed in all you do!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Loved everything you did and said in this video. Great tips and great and true advice at the end. Thanks!

@opendoorsopenhearts

10 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching! Have a great weekend!!

Your fireplace looks absoultely great to me, would never have suspected there was an issue with it if this had not been mentioned in the video.

@opendoorsopenhearts

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! That means so much!! Have a great week!!

I made a similar mistake when I did my fireplace. I forgot to wet the bricks first. So by the time I finished applying it all (which took much longer, I think, because I was putting it on dry brick), it had dried a little too much and was hard to wipe off. I ended up getting some muriatic acid, which is nasty stuff, but it softened up the lime enough that I was then able to wipe off a little more, and I'm thrilled with how mine turned out.

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

That’s wonderful!! I’m so glad you found a solution. I think the acidity of the vinegar is what helped me remove more of the lime, but it’s not super strong, which is why it took multiple times hahaha Lessons learned!! Have a great day!!

Thanks so much for the encouragement to not lose sight of who God created us to be for the mission we are pushing towards. You are an amazing young woman full of wisdom! 🥰

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Cindy!!! I love you’re encouragement and support!!!!

God bless you! You’re doing good! God love you! He’s done all the work. “It is done!” Don’t forget that!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Yess!

Instead of distressing the lime wash, I wonder if you could have simply increased the dilution before painting. The distress will then come from variable absorption of the lime wash.

@jag5316

7 ай бұрын

Lime wash is sold at premium paint prices so my frugal impulse is never to wash any of it off. I used it on my chimney at 50% dilution without distressing before calcification. I’ll let the sun and the elements do that.

I love your spirit and thank you for taking the time to put this video together. I'm sorry if you've answered this already but what brand Limewash did you use and can I get it on the interweb? Thanks in advance

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

You are so welcome! The brand is Romabio and the color I used was Avorio

Thank you so much for all the tips, it is very helpful, I also have a question what brand of lime wash did you use?

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Romabio is the brand we went with. Thanks so much for watching!

Great advice!! Be gentle with yourself… I think your fireplace looks great!!!!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words more than you know!

Thank you for the tips and the encouragement!! Praying you keep your eyes focused on the Lord through all the many things you have going on

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome, and THANK YOU beyond words!! I appreciate your prayers more than you know! They mean soo much to me! Thank you!! Have a great rest of your week!

Thank you for the video instructions and advice really appreciate it! You wore the first search as I’m about to order lime wash for my fireplace. And also subscribe as soon as you said you have chickens and turkeys and hunting and want to be self sufficient ❤😊

@opendoorsopenhearts

9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!! I'm so glad the video was helpful to you! Let me know how your fireplace goes. It truly is so much easier than I imagined it would be. And I'm so happy you decided to subscribe. Becoming more and more self-sufficient has been a wonderful journey. Not always easy, but the best things in life you often have to work for!

keep running the race and don’t give up because God is always bigger than what we can imagine ❤

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Amen!! You’re absolutely right!! Thanks for the encouragement!!

I like it

Hello what color did you use for the limewash? Love how it came out!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! We used Avorio.

Thank you for the video :) im looking to lighten some tan stone only slightly. Its a very harsh look and i think the fireplace would look more harmonious if it was a little bit lighter. Do you think if I wet the brick and dilute my limewash a lot I could acheive the look?

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Yeah!! As I was reading your comment before I got to your question I was thinking about suggesting that you dilute it much more than I did to achieve that look. I’d dilute it more than you think you need to. Just because it’s easier to limewash over limewash than it is to remove limewash later. You’ll have to tell me how it turns out!

@heidihernandez2771

Жыл бұрын

@@opendoorsopenhearts grateful for your reply, I will definitely try it out just like you said, more water than I think I would need. I love seeing ladies make their house a home, god bless 💕

@punkin4twenty

Жыл бұрын

@@heidihernandez2771 Hello. Romabio does not recommend diluting the limewash more than 1:1 (100% dilution). If you must, you can max it out at 150% dilution which would be 1L of Classico Limewash to 1.5L of water. Anything over that will weaken the binders that adhere the coating to your brick. If you want a semi-transparent look for your brick, you would want Venetian Glaze which can be more heavily diluted and is still a slaked lime paint. Also for all fireplaces Mineral Shield is recommended to protect the finish and prevent chalking. Please reach out if you need more guidance as Venetian Glaze is a newer product with less info circulating.

What color did you use? We are going to do ours but need product and color recommendations!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

We used a limewash paint by Romabio called Avorio. Thanks so much for watching!

Why are you using a jumbo brush, wow that blows my mind. No control at all with a brush that big

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

Yeah, we switched for a smaller brush before the project was over. Thanks for watching. Means so much!

The stone wash in the pic is yellowed, probably from age. To get that look, an ochre or cobalt pigment would have to be added to the super-bright-white lime wash used

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

You’re so right!!! I did talk to my husband about doing another color of limewash in different areas. But we’re working on the mantel as I type this. So we’re waiting to see what it looks like with a mantel. Maybe that will add enough warmth back into the fireplace??

@latitude1904

Жыл бұрын

@@opendoorsopenhearts I'm excited to see it, though I think the white is really pretty now. Love your inspirations!

In response to your husband's mention of "do not lose yourself for the sake of the mission," I must commend you and he both. This is true. What we also should be reminding ourselves is, especially as modern women and men of marriage, is that YES you can have it all - but you cannot have it all at once. Sometimes you can, but the cost is much, much higher than living in this moment when kids are small, and you are young. So, take off your shoes, put your feet in the grass and look down at them, say to yourself "This moment is all that matters. This moment is all I need to be in control of." This is all that God has given us control over, this itsy bitsy teeny tiny modicum of choice, and it is more than plenty. Your fireplace is gorgeous, and as a professional oil painter I am well aware of comparing original vision to outcome of my product. It's extremely rare that it does actually line up. The probability of it happening raises with practice, sure, but how many fireplaces do you limewash every year? Give yourself A++ for a job well executed, and allow yourself the grace to fully appreciate its beauty. Let the origin story go back into the Treasure Chest for "one day."

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

You have no idea how grateful I am for your kind words!! I’ve read them multiple times over because they are so sweet. Thank you for your encouragement and for watching my video. It means more than you know!

What about using a wire brush to distress it more???

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea! Once we get the mantel up I might try that! Thank you

Yours is also VERY beautiful though!!!

@opendoorsopenhearts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Now that we’ve had it a few months it’s definitely growing in me and I agree with you! Thanks again!

What paint did you use ?

@opendoorsopenhearts

Ай бұрын

We used a limewash paint by Romabio called Avorio. Thanks so much for watching!

I lost my daughter 4 years ago. Don't sweat the small stuff like the fireplace.

@opendoorsopenhearts

9 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't even imagine. I'll be praying for you! You are absolutely right!! Thanks for that reminder.

Its only a fail when you stop trying.

@opendoorsopenhearts

2 күн бұрын

You’re so right!! Thanks for watching and sharing that 🤍🤗

Loved your tips but even more so your testimony! Thank you!

@opendoorsopenhearts

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.