Classic Style
What makes a great Fireplace? Style. Find your fireplace style in these classic examples.
You have many options. You can hand pick the necessary tools you need to select the design and elements that add warmth and ambiance to your home, with a custom fireplace.
You determine the look of your fireplace. On the stage set of your home, you are director and designer. Make your fireplace the focal point of your domain. The development of the fireplace from the fire pit to contemporary hearths designed for modern homes are all available. Resonances of styles from earlier periods have found their way in the contemporary fireplace design. Baroque, Georgian, Victorian, Art Deco are modern day interpretations based on fireplaces in the period style.
The romance of fireplaces begins with the baronial stone splendors that created warmth in Europe’s Middles Ages. Recreate the old world fireside elegance of a French chateau or English country manor! These fireplace openings, hearths, mantels, and surrounds are all weighty in appearance and large in comparison to other fireplace styles. Materials often used include antique stone or marble surrounds, cast stone, wood-paneled walls and ceilings, exposed beams. Floors often include natural or simulated stone, slate, or large-scale tiles. Dark-stained wood flooring is also characteristic of the old world style.
New Classical
Neoclassicism swept through salons and sitting rooms in the 19th century. Inspired by Napoleonic and British influence passed down from ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. A classic look would feature formal fireplace with a combination of refined materials and graceful proportions. Symmetrical arrangements of classic accessories and mantel items carry the look. Furniture demonstrating scrolling, Roman eagles, Greek lyres, and stylized Egyptian lotuses are fabrics used in Classical décor sometimes called Empire.
Other styles to consider are :
American Traditional
Country European
Arts & Crafts
Laid-Back Lodge
Smooth Southwest
20th-Century European
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