Together with the Interior Design studio Shapingspaces, I painted the tiles around the fireplace. They provided the design, I provided my artistic abilities. It is not a real fireplace so no worries about ash and flames ruining it. The tile mural looks awesome in the room of the Spanish influenced home in Long Beach.
The hand painted tiles are from a spanish design and contrast nicely with the reddish brown of the fire place. Call 818 470 2932 if you like to have something similiar or you would like a fire place make over 

Hand painted Spanish tiles for a fireplace

The fireplace needed some accents and the Interior Designer from   Shaping Spaces was choosing the tiles design which I painted on seven tiles in a private residence of Long Beach.

Fire place before remodelling

The tiles really make the difference; see a photo of how it looked it before: