It is noticed that for a romantic meeting a cozy fireplace is a cozy fireplace. The clearly marked symbol of a peaceful home is peaceful. Perhaps, therefore, the fireplace is an excellent decorative element.
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What is a false fireplace
It is not always possible to install a real fireplace in a modern apartment. And for falsh fire this possibility always exists. The main thing is to properly decorate the fireplace case and create a realistic external frame.
The exterior design of the case can be a geometrically simple style. But it looks very impressive imitation of a real old fireplace. How to make a false fireplace yourself, and from what building materials?
The design of this fireplace is quite complex and requires accurate calculations. It will be necessary to erect a chimney, and to build a firebox by all the rules. The design of the fireplace falsework is quite simple and it takes a little time to install a fireplace of this type. But how nice it will be to sit next to him on a winter evening!
Varieties of falsh fireplaces
False fireplaces can be divided into groups:
• symbolic
• Conditional
• trustworthy.
For the symbolic falsity of the fireplace, it is characteristic that it can be made from almost any building material, so it is similar in appearance to the real fireplace "purely symbolically." In most cases, this is a skilfully reproduced drawing of the portal using decor elements.
For conditional fireplaces, the presence of a protruder from the adjacent walls of the portal is mandatory. In the furnace of the portal is installed a conventional electric fireplace with imitation of flame tongues.
For reliable falsifications of fireplaces, a complete imitation and correspondence of these fireplaces for exterior design and dimensions is typical. This is emphasized by the bio-fireplaces installed in the furnace, which create a reliable copy of the burning flame in the hearth.
How to equip a conditional fireplace you will understand from this video.
False fireplace in the interior of the apartment
Varieties falsh fireplaces in the interior can successfully hide some defects in the bearing structures of the room or decorate the interior partitions. What is interesting falsh fireplaces for the interior of the apartment? Let's just say that one of the positive qualities is universality. A false fireplace can be used as a spectacular decoration, in this its functional orientation depends on the material of the imitation fabrication.
The most common technique for decorating fireplace falsework with your own hands is to install various candles in the furnace opening. Dimensions of the opening of the fireplace furnace and the depth of the niche allow you to turn the opening into a kind of scene and magnificent thematic decorations. Everyone can become a director and participant of such a colorful performance. The more interesting will be the reincarnation of a primitive furnace into a brilliant theater of light with shadows and refined forms of melting candles. To the audience did not suspect deception, the firebox for greater credibility, fill with logs, from which it smells of a mysterious forest fairy tale. Particularly impressive is the firebox with logs, which has the appearance of an arch or a semi-circular view.
Look pretty shiny on metal grilles, highlighted from below. Find 10 differences will not work, because an ideal resemblance to a real fireplace will be achieved.
And, at last, rational use of a fireplace shelf under books or decorations of a decor speaks in favor of installation of falsh of a fireplace. Before you fire with desire, like a flame in a fireplace, arrange such a false fireplace in your apartment, you should think about its appropriateness.
Justification of the choice of the device of such an element of the interior should be based on simple rules: and whether it will be necessary to have such a fireplace in the existing interior. If the answer is positive, then you can proceed to create a fireplace mantel by yourself.
Making fireplace falsework
The optimal option for installing a fireplace in an apartment can be the acquisition of a ready-made portal and its installation. The subsequent decoration is possible after installation of all components of the fireplace. The industry of fireplaces produces "foci" from a variety of materials. These can be plates made of expensive facing stone or polyurethane of proletarian origin. The quality and appearance of such a polyurethane decoration today has reached stunning heights. Moldings and stucco moldings of polyurethane can reliably convey the elements of decoration of different eras with reliable accuracy.
True, from the works of the Masters of the Renaissance the elements of the decor will be distinguished, to put it mildly, by a democratic price. It is the portal or cladding that is the most attractive part of the fireplace, creating a kind of portrait. Registration of false fireplaces with the help of molding will reduce the cost of part for decoration with ready-made portals. Especially since it is possible to produce such effective decorations with your own hands. Do you already dream of decorating a fireplace in antique style? Then decorate the fireplace in accordance with its taste and choice of decorative elements.
And what else does a home master need to fulfill his dream? Oh yes! Another gypsum board, metal profiles, putty, two dozen screws and glue. If you have already prepared a three-dimensional model of your fireplace with the help of a special program, then you just have to mark with chalk on the wall its location. Then the frame of the fireplace is made. The frame is made of a metal profile with subsequent installation of sheets of plasterboard.
After the construction of the fireplace, the joints are sealed with putty, followed by the final primer and paint.
How to make a false fireplace from sheets of plasterboard will help you video.
The falsework of the fireplace can be made with an artificial stone. Before carrying out the cladding work, it is necessary to calculate the laying scheme and select the facing material. Brick or artificial stone is glued to the surface of the fireplace with glue. Then, when the liner dries, the seams are gently rubbed and decorated with molding.
Creative imitation of the fireplace with the hands of charming and charming women.