Trapping warm and warmth.

Fireplaces. The distinguished fire decoration that illuminates a place.

The freezing winter takes us, as real pilgrims, to cover ourselves in the candor of the fireplace.
The heat that these traditional heating systems give us in the less favorable climatic seasons
comes joined with pleasant sensations of an enjoyable wellbeing. The chimneys or log
fireplaces not only have the function of warming up a room; they also can be considered us
objects of the most exuisite design.
!e always have to evaluate very well the environment where the house or apartment is, in
which we are going to build the fireplace. This is because there are several factors that we have
to consider in the construction of the fireplace" the weather, the orientation of the house in which
is going to be built, the uality of the walls materials, the isolation and, mainly, how we are going
to use it. These factors can considerably impinge in the behavior and heating function of the
object.
#ears ago, the location of the fireplace was in the center of the living room. $s a decorative
main point, all the attention was directed towards the fireplace. %ictorian style, $rt &ouveau, $rt
'eco, coated in marble made it a sculptural object. &owadays, the fireplace left its traditional
place, to escape and be installed itself in fewer common rooms, such as bedrooms, bathrooms,
or in specially designed places for the catching fire of the chimney.
(n bedrooms they are usually located in front of the main bed, the rest joined with the intense
colors of the fire, is a double rest. )athrooms have much more importance in the houses, they
can be bigger with a relaxing place in it, and it is there where the fireplace is accompanying the
jacuzzi. This way we can enjoy a bath next to the heat of the fireplace. )ut the enchantment for
this object makes us wanting to design a special central place for it. &ext to a chaise longue
and a wool craft carpet, we create a room that covers us as a shelter for the body and soul.
For the contemporary styles, in the present days, it is advisable to use a design of clean and
geometrical lines, perfectly integrated and combined, from the visual, with the rest of the place.
!ith the own design of the fireplace we have to give importance to the place where we are
going to keep the logs, leaving them in a place where they can be seen as part of the
decoration. $t the same time, the fireplace continued moving on and went out of the house for
warming up a place that we only use in the summer, the gallery.
The simple lines are the ones that rule, making the chimney hide or standing it up. *ne of the
tendencies is to +vanish, the entrance of the fireplace. This can be done by mimetizando this
entrance inside the design of the wall, designing spaces for putting books or other objects. This
way we can disguise the entrance of the fireplace making it as a cavity between the walls.
-eeping the line, they stand up by covering the front side with noble materials such as stone,
wood, texture plaster, metal sheet with oxidized treatment, polished concrete or anything our
architect recommends us.
They separate places and they are the central point in a room. They illuminate with their intense
fire, creators of the perfect atmosphere for a reunion with friends and family. .heltered under
roof, its beautiful and warm company makes us enjoy the outside feeling a catching cheerful"
the one that the fire produces to make the watcher to fall in love and get acclimatized by it. To
see how the outside is been covered of a burning coldness, the grey stormy sky and ourselves
in the inside, listening the crackle of the logs, going through the pages of a pleasant magazine
or that book so enjoyable as the created habitat.
(nsert" /&ow the chimney has left its habitual place, to escape and settle in less0common
atmospheres" bedrooms, bathrooms or alternative spaces specially designed for the trapping
fire of the home./