Design Ideas for Fireplaces

Design Ideas for Fireplaces is the ultimate guide to the latest materials, products, and styles in fireplaces and wood-burning and gas-burning stoves, for inside or outside the house. The book is loaded with special tips and advice. One chapter takes a room-by-room look at the house and how to incorporate a fireplace. New Technology is thoroughly covered, and there is a special chapter on safety matter. Includes a complete Resource Guide of industry-related manufacturers and associations. With 450 color photographs, Design Ideas for Fireplaces amply illustrates every choice and technology, including masonry, factory-built sheet metal to gas fireplaces and stoves. Packed with information on surrounds and mantels, along with how to use the fireplace as a decorative element for any room.

Author Karen Stickels spent 20 years in the hearth industry as a technical consultant for the nation’s largest chimney supply wholesaler, which also manufactures chimney liners. She advised installers, wrote installation instructions, managed her company’s Underwriters Laboratories listings, and was part of an editing team for two hearth-related educational manuals. She currently works in the marketing department at Harper Brush Works, Inc., and spends time with her husband, Vic, and her daughter Jennifer, son-in-law Scott, and grandson Skye at her Iowa home.