False fireplaces in the interior of the living room

This solution is often used in cottages, private houses, and especially in standard city apartments, where it is impossible to build a full-fledged fireplace with wood heating due to the lack of a chimney. Such a fireplace copes well with both functions assigned to it - decorating and heating your home.

The place of false fireplaces in the interior is determined by you. They can be placed in the center of the wall, in the corner of the room, or even suspended from the ceiling.

Which room a fireplace decorates depends on the owner's preferences. It will be appropriate in the office, and in the bedroom, and in the kitchen, especially if it is large in size. But the most familiar place for the fireplace, of course, is the living room, where the whole family can get together "on fire."

Types of Raised Fireplaces

False fireplaces in the interior of the living room can be divided into three groups:

1. imitation with a high degree of reliability;
2. imitation with one degree or another of conditionality;
3. symbol denoting a fireplace.

IN first group includes niches built of drywall or even bricked out niches with a portal. It can be decorated using various finishing materials.

In such a fireplace, you can insert a heater with simulated real fire. The depth of the niche is at least 40 cm. As decorative elements in the design of such false fireplaces in the interior, real logs, stones, and sometimes even coals are used.

One of the options for reliable simulation is biofireplaces. They run on biofuel, usually dry alcohol, and give real fire and heat. True, such a fire looks different than wood fire.

In second group fireplace simulations included. They also have a niche, but its depth does not exceed 20 cm. The niche itself is decorated with a “normal” fireplace, and the hole intended in this fireplace for a firebox is used in accordance with your own preferences.

There you can put candles, beautiful installations or even fold a woodpile from thin branches. In order to visually increase the depth of such imitation to the “laid” forty centimeters, you can lay out a niche with a mirror canvas or tile.

Third group It does not involve building a niche for a false fireplace in the interior of a living room or any other room where you decide to create it. You can mark a fireplace on the wall simply by drawing it. Does everyone remember the painted hearth in Papa Carlo’s closet?

You can do trickier. Lay out a “frame” of aged boards on the wall, decorate it with antique candelabra on both sides, in which you place curly candles, and in the center of the composition will find its place a vase with a bouquet of fresh flowers or dried flowers. If you hang a beautiful mirror in an elegant frame on the wall behind this “frame”, the impression will be complete.

Decor

The decor for false fireplaces in the interior can be varied and changed for holidays or memorable dates, but in general it should be in harmony with the style and colors of the design of the room where you made it.

For example, the new year can be celebrated with accessories of red, white, green, yellow and white. Wreaths of coniferous paws, fir cones, beautiful Christmas toys - all this is suitable for decoration. Burning candles will serve as a wonderful addition to the New Year mood.

You can wrap the fireplace portal with an electric Christmas garland or tinsel - the main thing is not to overdo it with decorations.

False fireplaces can be purchased in stores, but can be done independently - it all depends on your needs. In any case, such an addition to the interior will make the house cozier and warmer.