 and clean it up i've seen people go through and stain the mortar to be from basically say it's a concrete color let's say it's just a regular mortar stain it black i've seen people do that really one of the best ones is adding a mantle or building a mantle and doing that cleaning it up maybe putting a new insert in it that is upgraded it's a gas fireplace putting a new insert in if it's got a log set there are some great log sets out there and this is really where you can make a huge difference