Living Room Design with Fireplace

If you love watching the movement of flames, a living room design with a fireplace is sure to appeal to you. Thanks to modern technologies offering fireplaces of various forms, sizes, and operating principles on the market, a "home hearth" can be easily incorporated into almost any interior. Living room design with a fireplace never goes out of style. A corner fireplace design, as shown in the photo below, provides an opportunity to create a separate area in the room for contemplation of the fiery element.

Photo 1 — A fireplace always adds a cozy atmosphere

Modern Living Room with Fireplace. Variety of Fireplaces for Any Conditions

Those wishing to create a living room interior with a fireplace will surely be found not only among happy owners of private homes, but also among residents of urban apartments. Fortunately, options for safely placing a fireplace in even small apartments are available.

Photo 2 — A modern fireplace can be integrated into any interior

Living room design with an electric fireplace. The ideal option for city dwellers where a traditional wood-burning or even gas fireplace cannot be installed due to technical limitations. Of course, it is not a real fire. However, today's electric fireplace manufacturers offer impressive features. The "drawn" flame now not only fully imitates a live one but often also performs the traditional heating function and can even produce characteristic sounds.

An electric fireplace is easy to install and maintain, has a relatively low price, and does not require additional permits for installation.

Photo 3 — An electric fireplace is simple and convenient to use

Photo 4 — The Riva 67 Avanti Electric Fire model by Stovax.

Living room with a bio-fireplace. A new term in fireplace engineering – bio-fireplaces. They operate on clean alcohol, so they do not require a chimney or additional room ventilation, and they produce no soot or ash. Additionally, such bio-fireplaces can be decorated in the most interesting ways, guided by your imagination. Particularly harmonious with minimalist, high-tech, loft, and modern styles.

Photo 5 — A bio-fireplace can be decorated in any way

Its advantages:

• relatively low cost of the fireplace itself;
• ecological friendliness;
• easy installation and no chimney required;
• air humidification;
• no permits needed.

At the same time, there are significant disadvantages:

• high cost of fuel (1 liter of bio-ethanol lasts 2-2.5 hours);
• odor of alcohol during ignition;
• not a heating appliance;
• requires adherence to safety rules.

Photo 6 — Bio-fireplaces are much easier to maintain than their wood-burning counterparts

Living room with a gas fireplace. A gas fireplace can be considered a transitional link between a wood-burning fireplace and an electric one. On one hand, it is a full-fledged fireplace with live flames and heating effect; on the other, minimal maintenance is required, and there is almost no ash or soot. It's more environmentally friendly and cheaper to maintain than wood-burning fireplaces. A gas fireplace no longer requires logs or storage space, but a chimney is still necessary.

There is one caveat – a permit is required to install a gas fireplace, and it makes sense only in apartments or country homes with municipal gas supply. Additionally, it requires connection to gas pipelines and is not autonomous.

Photo 7 — Gas fireplaces in a living room interior

Photo 8 — Gas fireplaces in a living room interior

Living room design with a wood-burning fireplace. Despite newer and more convenient types of fireplaces, the classic wood-burning fireplace is still popular. Actually, not just logs are used for fireplaces, but also coal, pellets, and even peat. Such a fireplace produces much more heat, which is well-suited for large country homes.

For urban apartments, such a high-heat element is simply unnecessary, not to mention the complexity of installation and maintenance in city conditions. Besides these drawbacks, there are others – a space is needed to store firewood, constant care is required for the fireplace, and installing a live flame hearth is not cheap.

Still, it's hard not to admit that the cozy crackling of a live fire cannot be compared with modern alternatives.

Photo 9 — Wood-burning fireplaces remain at the peak of popularity

Photo 10 — Wood-burning fireplaces remain at the peak of popularity

Photo 11 — Wood-burning fireplaces remain at the peak of popularity