Interior Design: Mantel with real fire fireplace

Every real fire fireplace loses its prominence as the focal point of a room over time. Whether it's wear and tear or just changing styles, your home's real fire fireplace is the perfect outlet for reinventing your ideas. There are many ways to target your existing furnace or completely revamp it with a new furnace system. Whichever way you choose, the carefully reconstructed real fire fireplace can bring you the same enjoyable, comfortable and charming atmosphere as before.

Understanding how to best renovate your real fire fireplace lies in knowing the space around it. Take stock of your designs. Modern enough? Or classic enough? Is it appropriate for a particular topic? (Western style, Southwest style, Asian style, etc.) If you are going to DIY renovate the space and real fire fireplace, you should consider making the fireplace one of the main design pillars of the room.

Although the classic image of a real fire fireplace involves rustic or classic American design schemes, in fact fireplaces are still very suitable for all aspects of decoration. The most radical - that is, the most obvious - changes happen when you change the fireplace itself, the mantel or its surroundings, and the chimney.

In terms of fashion, the combination of a brick chimney and a real fire mantel looks the worst from a visual standpoint alone. Exposed "natural veneer" bricks and heavy wooden mantels can degrade the original room design and throw the design of the room out of balance. Fortunately, they are some of the easiest elements to change.

On the other hand, a brick fire fireplace chimney can accumulate stains over time, whether due to problems with chimney ventilation in the past or the occasional downdraft forcing smoke and ash into the room. If your solution is to leave the existing elements unchanged, you can use a special furnace cleaner to remove light smoke deposits.

There are a variety of mantel options that can be used to change the look of a real fire fireplace. Designs range from vintage to modern, and a variety of more traditional products in between. Keep in mind, too, that mantelpieces vary in size, from simple shelves to elaborate hand-carved art pieces.

Keep the mantel in the same size ratio as the furniture around the real fire fireplace. If your end table and coffee table are relatively small, then the mantel should also be small. In addition, when considering size, it is important to take into account the necessary spacing and clearance required for the opening of a real fire fireplace. Maintaining this gap is not only a safety consideration, but also a good way to ensure that the mantel of a real fire fireplace is enough to last for several years.