Despite the fact that traditional wood fireplaces in the interior of the living room still perform the function of heating the premises, their main advantage in modern houses is still the role of a unique decorative element. And not only because the fireplace in the interior of the living room speaks of the taste and abundance of the owner of the housing. The reason is also the indestructible, sitting in each of us at the genetic level, the desire to contemplate real living fire.
True, if in a country house to lay out an old fireplace is not so difficult – in urban apartments this luxury is already inaccessible. But here modern design solutions come to the rescue, allowing you to replace natural with false, bio-rock in the interior. Moreover, the latter, if they lose the original as heating, then in convenience, cost, visual beauty and variety of options even surpasses it.
Architectural styles and fireplace design
The design of the fireplace is usually withstanding in the same style as the room in which it is located. Among the whole variety of styles – extending from Roman and Greek models to the designs of innovative futuristic forms – the design of the living room with a fireplace in the apartment can usually be reduced to four large directions:
Structurally classic options (regardless of whether it is natural fireplaces or their imitation) are characteristic of their rich decoration of the P-shaped portals-including a variety of stucco molding on columns, paintings in the Baroque style or ornaments from the times of Fukidid and Lukullah. In addition, the design of a fireplace designed in a classic style is almost always based on the natural properties of natural materials used in the masonry – marble, rare granite, labrador, expensive wood or forged metal.
Country (or Rouquel) implies the interior of the hall with a fireplace, sustained in rude rustic or even a little brutal style. In this case, the main materials are an unspoken brick, porous volcanic rocks, a knotted varnished tree or a bottle.
The design of the living room with a modern firepower is close to the classics, but is characterized by greater elegance, lack of pretentiousness, smooth lines and the use of combinations of stone with metal (whether it is natural materials or imitation made on the basis of drywall in the same false stone).
Finally, the hi-Tekov interiors are filled with innovations both in the decor and in the materials-both the living room itself and the fireplace located in it. Moreover, it is in this case that not traditional, but any bio-rock in the interior looks more harmonious. Fortunately, they are characterized by protective panels in the form of transparent glasses, hiding the nozzles in the slides of shiny stones and the most incredible forms and places of location, up to the suspended.
Places and ways of placing fireplaces in living rooms
A variety of structures, fuel types and architectural frills allows you to place fireplaces of various types in a variety of places. On this basis, experts divide fireplaces into the following types:
with central location;
adjacent to the wall;
angular;
built into the niche;
bilateral;
suspension;
Mobile portable.
The fireplace with the central location (or island) is distinguished by the most sophisticated and complex decor, and also takes the most place in comparison with its brothers. The fireplaces of this species are characterized by monumentality, unusual portals and a feature becomes a central element of the entire interior. True, in the role of a furnace in large halls they are ineffective, and therefore more suitable for medium designer premises.
A room with a fireplace, the interior and area of which is allowed to allocate a little less space for it, becomes the reason for choosing an option with the fit of the back wall of the structure to one of the walls. True, the choice of any of the types of the latter has its disadvantages. The adjacency to the facade wall will create difficulty with the output of the chimney (since the nearest path – to the facade – irreparably ruins its aesthetic virtues). Installation of external walls will require increased thermal insulation both wall and fireplace, and in internal ones – the construction of a protective box in order to avoid constant storm on the construction of households.
The corner fireplace is most convenient and economical in terms of location – and besides, it diversifies the interior to the best of it, hides one of the sharp corners and often (especially in European countries) serves two adjacent rooms at once at once.
The built -in version is also no worse – but it requires the presence of a niche or half -column planning to place the fireplace even at the design stages and build the building. Otherwise, the place for laying or arranging a false stone of this type will be created problematic.
Bilateral fireplaces are one of the most unusual and spectacular solutions in the interior designs of living rooms. Like island options, they occupy quite a lot of space, but they are able to visually divide the room into two separate zones – in each of which it seems to appear its own, a separate fireplace that makes it possible to contemplate dancing flames. However, there is a more economical option – when installing such a fireplace in the interior wall, a double -sided fireplace immediately turns into a couple of wallpaper or built -in.
Suspended and mobile fireplaces are not wood, and are usually one of the many types of bio -rocks (working on bioethanol) or electric fireplaces. At the same time, the first option is preferable to producing a real flame (although it is much inferior to electric fireplaces in the possibilities of heating).
