Help! Remodelling a fireplace and desperately need some advice
fourgables
3 years ago
Hello design brains!
We've been given the lovely problem of having to very quickly renovate a 1920s property and I seem to have exhausted my creative energy already. We've just taken out a very sad 1970s gas fire and surround and I am at a complete design Brick wall! Can't think what to do with the space. The pre-requisites are a log burner and a space for the basket or wood and room for our TV on the left but other than that we're open to any/all ideas and have a reasonable budget! Brick, stone, tile etc - just can't get a design in my head!!
Any inspiration and advice very very welcome! X
We've been given the lovely problem of having to very quickly renovate a 1920s property and I seem to have exhausted my creative energy already. We've just taken out a very sad 1970s gas fire and surround and I am at a complete design Brick wall! Can't think what to do with the space. The pre-requisites are a log burner and a space for the basket or wood and room for our TV on the left but other than that we're open to any/all ideas and have a reasonable budget! Brick, stone, tile etc - just can't get a design in my head!!
Any inspiration and advice very very welcome! X
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3 years ago magdalena_herbert
3 years agoI hope you can see what we are trying to do. In few days it's going to be complete :)
Jonathan
3 years agoI think what is blocking your ideas is the issue that any shelves built into these alcoves will be sat in the middle of a wall and usually this type of alcove would extend to the corner. Because of this issue I think that you should either:-
Block up the alcoves and so you only have to find a fireplace that you like.
Cover the alcoves with doors that looks like the wall and have invisible touch catches.
Build in the alcoves but run skirting and coving in front of the space so that you can read the main room.
Knock out the chimney brickwork so that your log burner is sat in the middle of a wider space.
Treat the whole of the recessed space as one and run a hearth across all of it and give the walls in the recesses and across the chimney the same treatment for uniformity.
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3 years agoHiya you have a nice space you are working with there, I can see your sockets are on the far left so I assume that will be the tv position, a log burner would look great in that opening, the alcoves I would either use shelves or maybe use cupboards to create some storage space or create log stores either side, pictures for your inspiration
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