A wood-burning fireplace for a home is a dominant element of the interior, creating a certain atmosphere around it.
It's no secret that a real fireplace with a live fire creates a unique atmosphere of warmth and comfort. In urban apartments, it is quite difficult to create a classic hearth; this requires serious reconstruction, for which it is not so easy to obtain permission. In some cases, such a restructuring is completely impossible. But it is much easier to install a wood-burning fireplace in a country house. This element fits perfectly into various interior styles, giving the environment a special charm. Wood-burning fireplaces for the home have practically lost their main function, playing an exclusively decorative role in modern homes. For each interior design style, you can choose a specific design that will harmoniously fit into the overall picture of the room.
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A wood-burning fireplace for the home gives warmth and effectively decorates the house.
Wood burning fireplaces for the home - a classic option
Wood-burning fireplaces for a traditional-style home most often have a strict U-shape. They are distinguished mainly by straight lines, strict symmetry and clarity of geometric shapes. As decorative additions for this type of fireplace, elements made of granite, marble or soapstone chloride are most often used. They are often decorated with forged grilles or other metal parts, carvings, stucco moldings, columns and even sculptures. The most striking representative of this type is the English fireplace.
A fireplace will fill your home with an atmosphere of warmth and comfort.
Rustic charm in wood burning fireplace designs
Country style interior design has become very popular, helping to transport you to a leisurely and measured country life. Wood-burning fireplaces for a home decorated in this way are simple and unobtrusive. In most cases, they are made of brick; the portal is laid out in the shape of the letter “D,” which gives them an unusual appearance.
Wood-burning fireplaces find their place in modern interiors
An integral attribute of fireplaces for a country-style home is a wide wooden beam located above the firebox. Most often it is used to place accessories: photographs, candlesticks, various figurines. Such wood-burning fireplaces for a private country house are traditionally lined with natural stone with a deliberately rough texture: sandstone or shell rock. It is much less common to find marble finishes. The first options have a much more favorable price, but they are more difficult to care for, since due to their porous structure they have the unpleasant property of accumulating dust.
Wood burning fireplace with stone trim
Stove-fireplace in the interior of the kitchen or dining room
Not only the living room can be decorated with such an exclusive decorative and functional device as a fireplace. Kitchen-dining rooms are also often implemented according to design projects that include a heater. If space allows, then the kitchen is generally an excellent place for such a product, because it will bring additional comfort and will completely integrate into the spirit of such a space - a place where family and friends gather in a narrow or wide circle.
And if you consider products such as heating and cooking stoves, you can create an entire kitchen complex. Heating and cooking stoves are mainly installed in country houses, since their functionality is quite wide and may be redundant for an apartment. In addition to high-quality heating and often even the preparation of hot water using a hydro circuit, such products are always equipped with:
- spacious hob with the ability to place and cook several dishes at once
- oven
- combustion chamber
- woodcutter
- compartment for storing kitchen utensils
- thermometer
- burners, often removable
- comfortable handles
- ash pan
- stylish cladding
Technological design of wood-burning fireplaces for the home
The interior, designed in high-tech style, is replete with modern materials, and wood-burning fireplaces are no exception. They can be made from a combination of metal, glass, chrome, and ceramics. The traditional option is a wood-burning fireplace for the home, made of polished or sometimes textured steel, decorated with chrome accessories. The shape can be almost any; there are oval, elongated, rectangular and round specimens. The design of the front glass door usually resembles a plasma TV screen - large in size, often elongated in width to give the best view of the play of flames.
Modern style living room with beautiful wood burning fireplace
You can often find models in which three walls are made of glass, and only the back part remains closed. With this move, live fire is much more visible. There are also options in which two walls parallel to each other remain transparent, and the wood-burning fireplace for the home itself is built into the interior partition.
A fireplace not only warms you up, but also adds a sense of coziness to your interior.
Stove-fireplace in the living room interior
If a private house or residential apartment that provides the possibility of installing a chimney is characterized by a small area, and installing a massive fireplace is not desirable from the point of view of functionality and design, then you should turn your attention to heating fireplace stoves. Having a double name, these products are distinguished by their low weight and always compact dimensions. At the same time, their design, as well as heating capabilities, are worthy competitors to traditional large fireplaces. For an interior designer, such products open up enormous opportunities; you just need to get acquainted with the list of styles in which they are made:
- modern
- modern
- Provence
- classical
- traditional
- antique-style (tiled ceramic stoves - potbelly stoves)
- antique
- hi-tech and loft
The designs of stoves also differ in variety: they can be traditional square, modern round or semicircular on a leg, with the ability to rotate from side to side, rectangular, minimalistic on a banquette. Steel, cast iron, tiles or ceramics of various colors will allow you to integrate such a product into any interior, and its small dimensions will save useful living space.
Classification of wood-burning fireplaces for the home by type of firebox
In addition to a certain style, households also differ in other ways. One of them is the furnace device. There are three varieties.
- Closed fireplaces
They differ in that the hearth itself, together with the chimney duct, is built into the main wall of the building, and the system is not visible from the outside. The most successful options for closed fireplaces for the home are wood-burning hearths made of brick, interesting models of which can be seen in the following photos.
Modern wood-burning fireplace in the interior of a bright living room
- Semi-open fireplaces
In most cases, these are attached fireplaces, the chimney of which is located against the wall, which opens up space for creativity and allows you to use your imagination when developing a design. Among the fireplaces for the home, which are semi-open wood-burning, you can often find designs in which one or two side walls are missing; the photo shows that this solution allows for the best view of the flame. Unlike closed ones, they give off significantly less heat, this is due to the fact that a lot of air from the room goes into the chimney. But the radius of the heated area for these models is slightly larger. Among them, wood-burning corner fireplaces for the home stand out, which allow you to use little-used space in the corner and simultaneously heat two adjacent rooms.
Interior of a living room with a fireplace in Provence style
- Open fireplaces
They have an attractive, unusual design. The open firebox is not located near the wall, but in the middle of the room. Such wood-burning fireplaces for the home, regardless of whether they are wood-burning, electric, gas or biofuel, often play the role of a central element around which the rest of the room’s furnishings are built. Open-type fires in most cases have a suspended structure or are located on light supports. Due to this circumstance, they are best suited for spacious rooms. They have a number of significant disadvantages.
- Poor room heating efficiency; they give off very little heat.
- To fully remove the resulting smoke, it is necessary to install special structures.
- Such models are characterized by an increased fire hazard, since hot embers can easily fall out of them.
A fireplace is a solution that avoids monotony and helps make a room cozy and attractive.
Living room interior with fireplace in apartment
Of course, not only a private home can be decorated with a fireplace. An ordinary city apartment, whether new or in a Khrushchev-era building, is also great for such design solutions. True, in the vast majority of cases, it is not possible to install a chimney into such spaces - a pipe that will remove combustion products from the hearth. This is where electric, bioethanol fireplaces or even false fireplaces come to the rescue. The first two types of hearths can even act as independent heat sources. And false fireplaces will help create an exclusive interior design for a bedroom or living room in an apartment. Let's take a closer look at what opportunities non-wood fires offer.
Let's start with false fireplaces: they are a marble portal, which is purchased without a firebox and chimney and installed in any convenient place in the room. You can create a cozy relaxation area next to it, and you can put candles inside such an artificial hearth. The walls around the false hearth are decorated in a style that matches the overall interior or, conversely, are highlighted separately to create a nice allusion to a real fireplace.
Bioethanol or electric fireplaces are of greater interest. Their stylistic diversity offers artistic expressions in a wide variety of designs. These products are equipped with advanced technical devices that imitate with exceptional plausibility:
- burning flame and smoldering wood using backlight
- smoke from fire using a steam generator
- the crackle of wood and the noise of flames using a special audio module
Such products are lightweight, so their installation does not require any additional components. A chimney or fire protection walls and bases for them are also not needed, since the process of burning wood in this case is completely eliminated. Thus, when creating an interior project, electric and bioethanol fireplaces can be located in absolutely any place in the room - depending on the ideas and vision of the designer.
What to consider when planning a fireplace for your home
As already mentioned, wood-burning fireplaces for the home practically do not perform a heating function, being only a decorative element. Heating takes about 10-15% of all energy released from burning wood. Therefore, you should not expect that the house will maintain a comfortable temperature at its expense.
Fireplaces in the interior can be made in almost any style
Any wood-burning fireplace for the home requires compliance with certain requirements. Firstly, it must be laid at the construction stage; it is almost impossible to integrate it into a finished building. Secondly, the wall through which the chimney is laid should not have electrical wiring or other communications, and it itself must be built from heat-resistant materials. It is not easy to build a fireplace with your own hands, so it is better to entrust it to professionals.
