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Spanish Revival Fireplace. This 1928 Los Feliz home, recently revitalied by Joe Lucas, featured beautiful Spanish Revival bones.Lucas left the fireplace intact, painted it white, and incorporated ...
Manufactured fireplaces are made with sheet metal or glass fire boxes. Electric fireplaces can be built-in replacements for wood or gas or retrofit with log inserts or electric fireboxes. A few types are wall mounted electric fireplaces, electric fireplace stoves, electric mantel fireplaces, and fixed or free standing electric fireplaces.
The fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a fire grate to catch the smoke. The term has evolved to include the decorative framework around the fireplace , and can include elaborate designs extending to the ceiling.
Marble is a rock composed of calcium and magnesium carbonate, mostly white and pink. [1] Common marble varieties are granular limestone or dolomite . The hardness of marble is very high, because the internal structure of the rock is very uniform after long-term natural aging, and the internal stress disappears, so the marble will not be ...
Lipová marble (lipovský mramor) from Horní Lipová, Jeseník District: dark and light-coloured; Sněžník marble (sněžníkovský mramor) from Horní Morava, Ústí nad Orlicí District: light-coloured; Supíkovice marble (supíkovický mramor) from Supíkovice, Jeseník District: grey-white; Marble mis-nomers:
To the right of the main foyer is the parlor, also known as the living room or drawing room, [359] with a large marble fireplace. [116] The parlor, added during the expansion of 1811, [356] has full-height windows that face the house's porch. [298] Compared with the other rooms in the mansion, the drawing room has deeper windows; its marble ...
This Old House is an American home improvement media brand with television shows, a magazine and a website, ThisOldHouse.com. The brand is headquartered in Stamford, CT.The television series airs on the American television station Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.
[43] [65] [72] The marble and onyx bands are designed as inverted chevrons. [65] [66] Opposite the Lexington Avenue entrance is a security guard's desk topped by a digital clock. [67] The panel behind the desk is made of marble, surrounded by Nirosta steel. [65] [66] The lobby connects to four elevator banks, each of a different design.