Before you start to design your fireplace, you first need to stretch your imagination!

You already have an image in your mind as to how you will use the fireplace! visualize that image!

Do you visualize it using as a gathering space for friends and family?

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Is it more of a romantic focal point? or both?

Perhaps you picture curling-up in front of the fireplace on a cold night! Indeed, you may be considering a fireplace as a primary heat source, or maybe it’s purely for decorative purposes!

Fireplace in a home is not just the place to retreat your family, but it can be a great focal point of your room! It is a structure made of stone, brick or metal designed to contain the fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambience they create & for heating a room. It will also add warmth and character to your space!

Have you ever thought, the people living in colder regions, who can’t afford fireplace in their homes – How would they survive in winters? People had to take extreme measures just to get through the cold and snow for months out of the year. In olden days, fuel came in the form of firewood, coal, or dried dung, depending on what a family could afford or was most easily available. The simpler houses would have one big fireplace made of brick or stone that people could walk into!

Here we give you some tips on how you can design your fireplace in your home and show-off some great aesthetics, no matter what interior style do you have!

01. Choose the Best Possible Fireplace Locations!

While thinking your fireplace’s use, you can probably imagine the spot for it! The most common fireplace locations are living room or a family room because they are the room most used! Some homeowners like a fireplace in the kitchen or the bedroom. Some even have one placed in the bathroom, though it sees less use in such a setting!

Your desired fireplace location will help you determine fuel type! If you are considering a wood-burning fireplace, you must choose an external wall. Contractors will also have to construct a chimney accordingly!

With new technology both in gas and electric fireplaces it now allows the contractors to build fireplaces into any wall or even without wall! A gas or electric fireplace can even stand in the center of a room!