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What to do with fireplace? HELP!

Christie Gaynor

8 years ago

We are going through a house renovation and unfortunately our fireplace, due to code clearance, had to be brought in 18" into our living room/great room (our kitchen now is open to the living room and faces this fireplace. They did not make the fireplace wall large enough and we bought the mantel 60" that they told us to buy. We were going for this look:

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The TV inset with a white frame around it on top and then stone surround with two "legs" of the mantel on each side. Since the wall jutted out, I was going to have the mdf "leg" wrap around the side of the wall to make the mantel surround legs look thicker and the wall seem less intrusive into the room. I hope this makes sense.

Now as you can see from the attached photos, the mantel bottom is smaller than the wall so if I put legs, there would not be any room for the stone. I want to use the stone. So should I put stone all below and just frame in white on each side and then do the frame above for the TV? Or try to connect the legs and make the mantel bigger somehow. Just so confused on what to do. The leg posts were going to match the posts we have in the dining room (just left of this pic) and the newel on the staircase. So disappointed. Any ideas? We will have sconces on each side. Craftsman-like house with mouldings. Thank you!

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Susan Davis
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
modify to something like this? but on each side.

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DH Design
8 years ago
I think I would recommend rethinking the entire look rather than trying to jerry rig something. Wrap the entire bottom with the stone and find a more rustic beam style mantel that will work with your craftsman look and then add some frame molding above to surround the TV. The only cost you would be out would be the white mantel and you might like this look more and the panel molding will still tie in with your dining room and stairway. Good luck and have fun!
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purplekylady
8 years ago
My problem is that we have a similar design, but no mantel. Of course we can't use the gas fireplace because it heats the TV within 15 minutes. What kind of mantel would block the transfer of heat?
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Old World Stoneworks
8 years ago
You could use a stone surround instead of the wood. A stone surround would afford you some additional options. Firstly, there are no code restraints. Although if you wanted to expose some of that beautiful interior stone in your photos then you still could. The point being that you have options with a stone surround. We offer many designs with many depths. The deeper designs will help deflect the heat from your firebox. The less deep designs will not deflect the heat as much. That makes sense!

Below is an example of a small wall space with a stone surround. You could opt to not include the interior fillers and expose your own interior stone.
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Above is another example of the rear wall being bumped out into the space.

We could also create some custom returns that would cover the lower bump out area. Below is an example of a wall bumped out into the space of the room in which custom returns were added.

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