Living room with corner fireplace
Psychologists recommend looking at the fire more often. This activity calms and helps to put in order the thoughts. Perhaps this is why fireplaces are almost a mandatory attribute of the living room in many country mansions. And really - what could be better: to come home after a busy day and relax near the fireplace?
Just imagine how effectively the living room will look with a real fireplace, with a big TV and with a huge corner sofa, which can fit all your large friendly family? The lulling crackling of firewood, the flickering flames of fire and the big dog near the fireplace is the perfect picture for a glossy magazine.
But what should those unfortunate residents of the megalopolis, who are not the happy owners of luxury villas, but only residents of high-rise buildings, or birdhouses, how do the powerful of the world sometimes speak of such houses? What to do if there is a shortage of square meters, and you really want a fireplace? The tip is ready: install a corner fireplace.
The main advantage of corner fireplaces is that they are compact.Such devices will easily fit into any, even a small space of the living room. Its heat emission is much greater than that of a conventional fireplace. You not only can enjoy a beautiful and cozy glow from different angles.
Yes, and the viewing angle is much more - Installing such a fireplace in a country house will increase the summer season, and you will be able to get out of the city not only in summer, but also in the cold season. In the apartment the corner fireplace is just a godsend. It will also warm you up during the off-season, when it’s already cold outside and the central heating hasn’t been turned on yet. Corner fireplaces in their design can be floor or wall. The undeniable advantage of those and other types of corner fireplaces is that they provide more heat due to the fact that they immediately heat two walls.
Only it should be understood that no one will allow to install a real wood burning fireplace in a city apartment. Therefore, we are talking about an electric device with an imitation of a living flame or a fireplace running on biofuels.
Types of corner fireplaces
Electric
There are practically no restrictions for such devices - perhaps the lack of a source of electricity.For them, do not need to make a chimney or redo the walls. From them there is no soot, unpleasant smell and burning. They are no more dangerous than any other electric heater. They have a heat regulator with which you can adjust the temperature in the room. There are models with remote control. The only inconvenience - you do not get the full effect of the fire with the smell of smoke and the sound of crackling firewood. Corner biofireplaces.
Modern biofuels have turned the world of interior design. This is a real fire without smoke. Such fireplaces work on the liquid, which includes ethanol. In the process of burning the fuel is converted into steam, so the air is not only does not dry out the fuel, but also moisturizes it. Biofuels do not emit odor, soot or smoke. If desired, a few drops of your favorite perfume or aromatic oil can be added to the fluid reservoir.
According to the type of structure, corner fireplaces are divided into symmetrical and asymmetrical.
Symmetric
The device with the right sides claims to be the dominant object in the room so that the rest of the design would obey its location.Furniture and all other furnishings should be placed in the same correct geometry as the corner fireplace. The size of symmetrical fireplaces, as a rule, is larger than that of asymmetrical ones. They can be given any shape - flat or rounded. This allows you to place it in any room - in the kitchen, in the living room and even on the summer terrace. They can fill an uncomfortable space between different pieces of furniture.
Asymmetrical
If a room where an asymmetrical fireplace is installed is large, then its designers are very often used to divide this room into zones. Its walls will be at the same time borders of different rooms. If the room has, for example, the shape of an elongated rectangle, such a fireplace can bring some balance to the space. As a rule, devices of this type have a non-standard form. And in combination with the original decoration of the fireplace will be a highlight of the entire interior.
Design Ideas for Finishes
To the fireplace did not look like something foreign in the living room, you should carefully consider the idea of its exterior. If the fireplace is laid out of this brick, it can be left in this form.Such design is often found in the interior, made in ethnic style or in English design.
The fireplace is a relative of the Russian stove. A furnace in Russia was taken to lay clay tiles. This was done not only for decoration, but also to increase heat transfer. For the fireplace is to choose glazed tiles.
Facing the corner fireplace with natural stone or marble chips is used to make the room pompous and solemn. This type of finish is most common in large spaces.
In living rooms with a small area, the corner fireplace is often simply plastered to the color of the surrounding walls. This is done so that the details of the fireplace, speaking, do not visually reduce the already small space.
For additional decor space corner of the fireplace, you can use various accessories - for example, laying of firewood. Even if you have an electric fire, they will serve as an additional entourage. If the fireplace has a shelf, you can put a digital photo frame on it, thus combining the past and the present in one interior. Also, mantels traditionally decorate watches, jewelry boxes, candlesticks.However, you should not overload the space so that all the objects do not argue, but complement each other.