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What can be tiled fireplaces?

first determine how much functionality should be in your understanding of tiled fireplaces.They may be fake, that is completely decorative, as the Pope Carlo focus in the fairy tale "The Golden Key".You can also choose polubutaforsky portal, in which instead of the usual wood-burning furnace is an electric filling.Heated this "home" is, and decorate a room, too, but you will enjoy the live fire in the evening will not be possible, unless the install modern heating unit with a screen, which looks like a real fire.

And, of course, most ordinary fireplace, made with all the rules of the firebox.This furnace must be fairly deep, and taking into account predtopochnoy FIELDS takes a lot of space in your room.But the first two options can be quite narrow, the wall of the facade of the portal is sometimes at a distance of 10-15 centimeters.

fake fireplaces were common in the Winter Palace, until Amosov furnaces.More Count Sheremetev mentioned tiles fireplaces, never knowing the fire, noting that they are beautiful, but this beauty is quite warm.

Among other things, the tiles you have to choose from a variety of options.These include historical portals, ie exact copies, or as it is now customary to say, once the existing replicas fireplaces, covered with ornate tiles.For example, you can choose the reconstruction of one of the portals, made under Peter I and Catherine II in the imperial palace.Chance and the option of purchasing an antique portal.In this case, be careful, because the old tiles are really a lot, but most of them are sold for fabulous sums, being very cheap.

If you can not see a specialist in antique fireplaces, easier to buy a copy of an ancient portal .The most affordable option - go to the store and buy modern tiles, stamped on the assembly line.Not exclusively, but cheap and cheerful.Or, if you want a really unique thing, make tiles boxed works, painted by hand.

Classic fireplaces should be made out correctly

Based on the fact that the brick fireplace with an open portal is not able to accumulate heat and in respect of heat transfer is much inferior to the heating furnaces, it is necessary to find ways to improve the heating open hearth.The best option - a tiled tiles as classic fireplaces, covered with marble, heated worse, stone in general rather poor conductor of heat.But to overdo it with facing impossible.

main rule - put the brick in view of the future of tile coating .The fact is that the setter has to offer just perform a particular clutch, and then decide to finish.This option is not allowed, particularly if you want a certain type of portal.If you selected Mask (facing) does not correspond to the masonry, lightweight design will find the average weight, the average will be heavy and bulky fireplace generally become supermassive.Thus, you have two options - to design a fireplace with cladding or choose the judges, based on the design of the fireplace, and the maximum possible load on the foundation.

most simple solution, when the project is taken into account everything, ideally this should be done at the stage of planning the house.However, if the fireplace is installed in the finished building or apartment, choose the trim along with the design - an optimal solution.In this case, the contingencies are virtually eliminated, especially at the stage of finishing the portal tiles, pre-fitted for the dimensions of the facade, the side walls and the chimney.

Worse, if the fire already and you start coming up with design facing.In this case, the time to use second rule - down to the millimeter, consider all the dimensions of the portal, the chimney mantel and other elements of the "hearth» .It is necessary to watch out for any little thing, and you have to redo the entire liner from scratch because no tile tiles sawn.Maybe even have to buy the tiles of other, more appropriate size.

Fireplaces classic style limited choice

design in relation to finishing as such there are a few rules, however, can not comply with, although the results may subsequently have little or no small part to disappoint.Firstly, the fireplaces in the classic style require you to use only the tile that comes to your chosen style portal.If this fireplace, copying those that warmed the room in the lodge of Peter the Great, the tiles to it can not be patterned, for example, under gzhel.Secondly, fireplace design should ideally be combined with the color scheme, as if the second cause you irritation portal itself also will not please the eye.

And two rules strictly designer.In no case do not trust the designer or master-oven-builder selection pattern or color tiles tiled.They will rely entirely on your taste, which may diverge from yours.In extreme cases, you can discuss with an expert combination of various colors, not more.

And the last rule - selecting tiles and wanting to get a really original portal, not through fashion magazines and get a really good master who can, based on catalogs, to design a truly unique finish for you.To remain the exclusive owner of the tiled portal as long as possible, do not let him take pictures, he immediately falls in price, which should be considered if you are in the future want to sell a house or an apartment with a fireplace.