please help with choice

tsuzmir

Ok, I need a view of general public it's been 3-4 months since i started thinking of something I wanted for a while now: brick build fireplace with nice chunky reclaimed timber mantel. it's meant to be rustic and give real wow effect when you walk into the living room. the problem is the more i think about it the harder is to make a decision on the shape, size, colour of the brick,..... one thing i know is that we are going to use cassette stove (http://www.woodburnerwarehouse.co.uk/images/stovax-riva-40.png) so i dont want its surround to overpower it.
question 1: what colour brick would you choose? (attachement 1 to 6)
question 2: what style would you choose? (attachement 7 to 12), as for no. 11 brick would go as high a mantel, as an idea of having brick floor to ceilling does not appeal to really... rest of pic attached in following posts, hope i'm not abusing the forum rules...

tsuzmir

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tsuzmir

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Doc

I'd go with 12 for both the type of brick and the mantel. As I think the industrial look of red brick would go well with the wood-burner in that pic.

paddy147

You could go down the fire proof plasterboard and skim route and just paint the chimney breast instead.Or just a sand cement and smooth render finish instead??

Cassette stoves are a modern contemp look,so going for smooth skim and paint look,will look well too....aswell as brickwork
Also you could recess the hearth into the floor,so that its flush with the floor and gives you more of a spacious look to the room.

Stove in the pics is a Stovax Riva 66 8kw Multi Fuel Stove.

Briquettes and wood is mostly burned in it.

Pinky123

My vote goes with #11
Love the tone of the stone which will bring warmth to the room and it will be easy enough to change the colour scheme of the room as its not overpowering.
Would defiantly bring the fire out flush with the stone fascia and have the hearth raised up about 300mm, easier to clean and load stove and makes it more of a focal point when you enter the room not to mention the perfect height for toasting your toes on a winters night.....
Also agree with only bringing stone up to mantel height, depending on the space you have you could wrap the mantel around the chimney.

HTH

stephen_k

paddy147 wrote: »

Also you could recess the hearth into the floor,so that its flush with the floor and gives you more of a spacious look to the room.

While it doesn't specifically say you can't do this in the Irish Building regs, the HETAS recommendations and UK regs state that you have to have a change of height of 12mm to clearly define the safe perimeter...

The Irish Buiding Regs only state that the hearth should be 12mm thick (if on a non combustible floor)... But I feel that the correct interpretation is that this is a 12mm change of height and that a flush hearth should not be considered safe IMHO...