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Shift the Focal Point. Install a playful wallpaper on the TV room ceiling to take the focus off the flat screen. Alicia Hassen, the founder of interior design firm Brooklinteriors, built the color ...
Go Tone-on-Tone. For a soft and subtle look, mixing tones of the same hue can result in a calming and layered look. In this cozy living room by interior stylist Emma Jane Palin, a barely-there ...
This Schuyler Samperton–designed fireplace—painted in Farrow & Ball’s Studio Green—taps into both the timelessness and urgency of this color. Bonus points if you choose to reuse the hue in ...
Modern open fireplace. An outdoor fireplace. A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for heating a room. Modern fireplaces vary in heat efficiency, depending on the design. Historically, they were used for heating a dwelling ...
Rumford fireplace. The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Anglo-American physicist best known for his investigations of heat. Its shallow, angled sides are designed to reflect heat into the room, and its streamlined throat minimizes turbulence, thereby carrying away smoke with ...
A Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [ 1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [ 2]
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An electric fireplace is an electric heater that mimics a fireplace burning coal, wood, or natural gas. Electric fireplaces are often placed in conventional fireplaces, which can then no longer be used for conventional fires. [1] They plug into the wall, and can run on a "flame only" setting, or can be used as a heater, typically consuming 1.4 ...