Fireplaces & Fireplace Mantels
Fireplace Design, Fireplace Mantel Design and Construction

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Fireplaces

Building A Fireplace
Step-By-Step Instructions for Contemporary to Classic Styles
There is nothing quite like a hot, crackling fire on a cold, snowy night. Use this new book as a reference guide to create your dream fireplace, be it contemporary or a more conservative, classic design. Step-by-step instructions will walk you through the process from start to finish, from choosing the best location and installing the fireplace and venting to finishing your home's new centerpiece. Construction techniques are demonstrated in more than 290 color photos and 20 detailed diagrams.

Building Fireplace Mantels
Distinctive Fireplace Mantel Projects You Can Build for Any Style Home
The building of fireplace mantels is fast becoming one of the most popular home renovation projects in the country. The attractive and distinctive fireplace mantels in this book will inspire you to build your own. Nine projects reflect all the popular home styles from Colonial to Arts and Crafts and Contemporary, ensuring a project to suit your home and tastes. Step-by-step instructions, cutlists, and excellent process photography and illustrations make the mantels accessible -- whatever your skill level. An initial chapter surveys materials for building and finishing mantels. You wont find a better how-to book on fireplace mantels anywhere.

Concrete at Home
From best-selling author Fu-Tung Cheng, the recognized master craftsman of residential concrete design, comes Concrete at Home, the follow up to his ground-breaking Concrete Countertops. In this new title, Cheng shows you the anything-is-possible flexibility of concrete, and gives you the step-by-step guidance and confidence to form, pour, and polish your own distinctive countertops, floors, walls, fireplaces, and more. Part design study, part instruction manual, Concrete at Home is packed with hundreds of photos .

Constructing a Fireplace Mantel: Step-by-Step from Plywood and Stock Molding
Learn How to Build Fireplace Mantels From Stock Molding and Plywood
Nothing brings a warm feeling to a room's decor like a fireplace, and nothing enhances a fireplace like a beautiful mantel. This new book provides a step-by-step guide for building a beautiful mantelpiece with a recessed face plate, paneled designs on the legs and face plate, and an infinite number of variations. Using plywood and stock moldings, the reader is taken through every step of the process, with each action illustrated with a color photograph and a clear explanation. Beginning with the drawing it proceeds with building the carcass and ends with the application of the moldings and a clear spray finish. This book makes it possible for any woodworker to create a beautiful mantel. In the gallery section, the reader gets a look at how the basic design can be embellished with various treatments and the application of stock moldings.

Design Ideas for Fireplaces
The Ultimate Guide to Fireplace Construction Materials & Styles
Design Ideas for Fireplaces is the ultimate guide to the latest materials, products, and styles in fireplaces and wood- and gas-burning stoves. With 450 color photographs, Design Ideas for Fireplaces amply illustrates every choice in fireplaces and stoves, from masonry fireplaces, factory-built sheet-metal fireplaces, and exterior fireplaces to gas fireplaces, gas stoves, and wood stoves. The book is loaded with special tips and advice. One chapter takes a room-by-room look at the house and how to incorporate a fireplace. New technology is thoroughly covered, and there is a separate chapter on safety. Includes a complete Resource Guide.

Fireplace & Mantel Ideas
Design, Build and Install Your Dream Fireplace Mantel
The history, technology, and structure of fireplaces and mantles are discussed in this updated edition. A full discussion of wood- and gas-fired fireplaces helps builders decide which model works best for them. Two detailed projects, carving a western-themed mantle and installing a classic mantle, provide practical direction for constructing a mantle from start to finish. A full-color idea gallery with dimensioned original drawings, photographs, and detailed close-ups offers inspiration for choosing the perfect mantle design. Featured styles include Art Nouveau, Country French, and English Traditional. A helpful appendix of dealers and suppliers throughout Canada and the United States completes this guide to designing and installing a fireplace and mantle unit.

Fireplaces - A Practical Design Guide
A Practical Design Guide to Fireplaces and Stoves Indoors and Out
How to tackle problems unique to room additions, such as requirements for basement conversions, reinforcing ceiling joists for second-story conversions, handling problems in attic conversions, and what's required for footings, foundations and slabs. Explains how to design the best bathroom for the space. Even covers how to handle upgrades to electrical work in additions. Besides actual construction techniques, you'll find help in planning and designing and estimating room additions.

Fireplaces - Design and Construction of Open Fireplaces
Design and Construction of Domestic Open Fireplaces
This book gives a careful and comprehensive explanation of how open fires work. The emphasis is on the technical aspects of their operation. The information to design, construct and operate open fires plus their chimneys is included. The principles of draft and air flow are described. The details of design optimization to maximize attractiveness and thermal efficiency of fireplaces and throats are explained

Fireplaces - Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer
A Must-Have Book on All Types of Fireplaces
Features the latest in flame technology, firebox construction, and building materials; all the innovations that have made fireplace and other fire features more popular in today's homes than ever before. The book's contents include chapters on traditional wood-burning masonry fireplaces including wood and pellet fireplaces, prefabricated fireplaces, gas fireplaces and stoves, fireplace inserts, hearths & mantles, outdoor fireplaces, fire pits and patio fire features, and accessories. For homeowners planning a new fireplace or looking for ways to make an existing fireplace more functional and fun

Fireplaces, Chimneys & Stoves
Complete Resource for Fireplace, Chimney & Stove Information
Fireplaces, Chimneys & Stoves provides essential information for anyone who is considering re-opening a chimney, or who has chimney problems or who wishes to make an informed decision about the selection and installation of a new fireplace or stove. The book looks at safety; using electricity, gas, oil, wood, or solid fuels; closed and open appliances, inset and freestanding installations, and making the correct choice; chimney design, regulations, and standards; the refurbishment and repair of flues; surveying, testing, and commissioning chimneys; and their subsequent care and maintenance.

Making Mantels
Learn Everything You Need to Know to Build Fireplace Mantels
No woodworking project is more gratifying than making a beautiful fireplace mantel. There is no such thing as a "correct" mantel: they come in every conceivable shape and style, which leaves room for creativity. The 200 color photographs in this guide cover a broad range of possibilities for the craftsperson to consider. Plentiful examples of detailed plans guide the woodworker through the design, construction, and installation steps in mantel making. Also covered is essential information peculiar to mantels-fireproof materials, safety considerations, building codes.

Rustic Fireplaces
Designs for over 100 Beautiful Rustic Fireplaces and Hearths
Fireplaces have become elaborate works of art in rustic home design. From stone and rocks to elaborately carved wood and antlers to a variety of metals and wrought iron, Kylloe has collected designs for more than 100 fireplaces and hearths that will inspire homebuilders, homeowners, craftspeople and anyone looking for ideas on how to incorporate the warmth and artisanship of a good fireplace into their home.

Step By Step To A Classic Fireplace Mantel
Learn To Build Classic Fireplace Mantels
Whether there is a fire burning or not, there is something about a fireplace that gives a room warmth. The mantel we build around the fireplace becomes a focal point of decorating, bringing to all that surrounds a sense of elegance. In this new book Steve Penberthy and Gary Jones help the homeowner build a classic fireplace from stock materials and moldings and tools found in the most basic of workshops. From measurement to the finished product, they take the reader through the complete process. Every step is illustrated with a color photograph and a concise instruction..

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