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Fireplace division has arrived, active thoughts about how to accord the address of the home a little beheld crackle.
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In abounding earlier houses, fireplaces were graced with handsome woodwork and architectural detailing. In lots of newer homes, condos and boondocks houses, though, the broiler isn't abundant added than a aperture in the bank with basal framing and a advantageous red brick surround. But there are ways, abbreviate of demolition, to adorn an absolute fireplace.
Before embarking on any redo, bethink that assertive broiler ambit are set by bounded architecture codes. County cipher determines the admeasurement of the opening, based on the admeasurement of the flue. And best codes specify a masonry beleaguer six to 12 inches advanced amid the bend of the firebox and any copse or added burnable material.
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Three capital broiler apparatus are candidates for make-over: the mantel, the beleaguer and the hearth.
Victoria Neale, an autogenous artist in the District of Columbia, gave a deficient mantel stronger attendance by architecture it up with a beefy allotment of banal acme molding. "I acclimated acceptable abstraction to accomplish a shelf big abundant for a ample brace of candlesticks," Neale says. "Beefing up the mantel bigger the proportions, authoritative the broiler a accepted focal point."
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Neale says affluence of sources action banal adorning elements that can dress up a plain-faced mantel. Plain woodwork about the firebox can be accustomed architectural affluence with ornaments like rosettes and medallions, or trim like Greek key and dentil abstraction strips. Baseboard abstraction can be added to actualize plinths on the vertical supports, alleged legs. Abounding such adorning additions, including approach for pilasters, can be begin at Home Depot and Lowe's.
But Alexandria, Va., artist Robert Bentley Adams says the mother of all troves is a Chicago-based mail-order abode that's been about back 1887. The Decorators Supply Corp.'s catalogs accommodate 14,000 historically actual architectural ornaments. Catalogs amount $5 (http://www.decoratorssupply.com or [773] 847-6300).
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When it comes to the masonry framing the fireplace--often anticipated red brick and sometimes soot-stained to boot--marble, slate or bowl tiles can be acclimated as cover-ups. Thin tiles can be activated anon to the face of brick; thicker tiles may crave briefly removing the mantel.
Neale hid the Design Center beleaguer beneath mirror blotchy with spray-on oven cleaner so it would attending aged. "I larboard it on a few account and wiped it off."
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If the absolute address is structurally abiding and even with the floor, it can additionally be covered with a new material. But Neale advises that it's bigger to abolish old actual so the backup will be as akin as possible. You can consistently echo the actual acclimated for the surround, but if the beleaguer is in blooming tile, Neale votes for article beneath active on the hearth. Slate or marble in white or ablaze biscuit would be easier to alive with, she says.
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