It is best if you provide a place for the future fireplace at the stage of design and construction of your home. Nevertheless, thanks to the existence of ready -made fireplaces and structures of electric fireplaces in the modern market, its installation can be performed at any stage of operation of a country house or a summer residence.
When arranging a wood fireplace in the interior of a cottage or house, you should not assign special hopes on it as the main source of heat, especially in the winter period. This is due to the rather low efficiency of such a hearth not exceeding 15%. In addition, the design of the fireplace does not provide for the possibility of accumulation of heat in the room.
This is what a fireplace in the interior of the house makes no more than an exquisite element of the interior.
The simplest option for arranging a fireplace is the purchase of a ready -made fireplace kit. Despite the simplicity of such a decision, it also has its disadvantages, the buyer will have to choose a fireplace from among the proposed models, this way the problem of harmonious acquisition with the design of the entire room arises, moreover, buying a ready -made fireplace, you will be deprived of the opportunity to realize your own design ideas in life.
You can simplify the task of choosing and reduce the cost of building a fireplace by arranging it yourself, and in order to give it to the portal, the required type just buy a fireplace cladding.
Another opportunity to get your own home is an order for a fireplace for an individual project. This option is ideal in terms of interior design, as it involves the arrangement of the fireplace exclusively in accordance with the technical capabilities and the interior solution of the premises, as well as the wishes of the customer.
In order for the fireplace to fit as best as possible into the interior of the room, it is worth considering that the fireplace portals lined with artificial or natural stone look most harmonious against the background of the living room with the use of wood, it can be wooden beams of the ceiling, or wall lining, as well as furniture made of wood or rattan. The marble fireplaces will become a highlight of the interior in the English style or baroque style. For modern interiors, fireplaces made of steel and hardened glass are suitable.