Decorative painting on a wood and tiled fireplace

 I hadn't seen this fireplace before the painters applied white paint to the panels so don't know what it originally looked like. With the architect and the client, we decided to use the color of the lovely dark red tiles at the bottom and the ochre yellow ones.

 I used artists oil paint for the panels. The luminosity of the patina doesn't show in my photos which is too bad as the panels glow a bit.

I then realized that the tiles were stained with dark brown wood varnish so scrubbed them with acetone. I also retouched the wood and bamboo bits with a little brown paint to mask the nicks.