With the high cost of electric bills, which have hiked significantly over recent years, you may be considering a more traditional approach to heating your home: a stone fireplace. Open fires are actually incredibly effective and efficient at providing a room with heat, not to mention they create a perfectly cosy atmosphere in the cooler months!
They also make for an impactful decorative element in your living space, one that can be curated according to your tastes and design vision. If you like the idea of creating a bespoke fireplace in your home, then keep reading as we offer our advice on how you can achieve your perfect fireplace using decorative cast stone.
Creating a Bespoke Design
Before jumping the gun and going ahead with installing your fireplace, you’ll first want to consider its design. There are some key considerations that you’ll want to think about, including:
● The space available
● The size your fireplace and surround will be
● The colours, textures and general appearance of your current interior design
With this in mind, you can go about drawing up how you want your fireplace to look. Things you may think about could then include:
● The shape in which the stones of your surround are arranged
● The type of fire/stove you’ll have in the centre
● What colour palettes/concepts you want to follow
Choosing Your Materials
Once you have a general design idea in mind, then next you’ll want to think about the materials that will be used to make it.
If you want a fireplace that effectively heats your room, can be made safe and will withstand the test of time without losing its visual integrity, then a traditional decorative stone fireplace is the way to go. Cast stone, in particular, makes for the perfect fireplace material.
As well as offering all the properties of natural stone (such as its heat retention abilities, durability and low maintenance requirements), it’s also much more affordable and customisable, since it can be cast to meet almost any design specification.
Finalising with Accessories
Once you’ve got the design finalised for the actual fireplace itself, the last thing you may want to consider is how you’re going to accessorise it. You’ll likely require a companion set, which includes all the necessary tools for managing a fire - there are many different designs of these for you to choose from.
If you’re opting for logs over charcoal, then you may also wish to adorn your fireplace with a basket to store firewood. There are lots of existing examples out there for you to draw inspiration from!
Decorative Stonework Solutions
If you like the sound of incorporating a traditional fireplace with decorative cast stone into your home, then look to us here at Shropshire Brick & Stone (UK) Ltd.
As experts in cast stone, we can create the perfect stone surround for your fireplace - made to match your vision exactly. Get in touch with us today to discuss your requirements.
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