First I bought some joint compound and fill up the deep grove to smoothen out the depth between the brick and mortar. This had to dry for 24 hours, after that I reapplied since cracks accured once the compound dried out. Waited another 24 hours.

After everything was dry I applied a primer ( I prefer Bulls Eye 1-2-3 primer) let that dry for a few hours and applied another coat.

In the meanwhile I took the fireplace doors apart and bought a semi gloss black spray (rustoleum) and spray-painted the fireplace doors a nice and even black.

Once  the primer dried I applied a lighter color of the wall color (Valspar Laura Ashley 208) and deceided last minute to paint the wall behind the mantel the same color.

And the most fun part, updating the todo list.

First things first, to add more privacy to our living room I  frosted the frontdoor and sunroom. Looked arouncame to the conclusion that IKEA had the cheap simple frosting material called AMORF.

On my way to find frosting material i saw that Homedepot had a outside clearance sale. I went back and saw a nice ceilingfan for 1/3 of its original price. The old ceilingfan in the kitchen needed to be updated and was bothering me already the whole year.

After that i did some cleanup in the backyard, since the previous owners left all kinds of construction debri.