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Bold, bespoke, beautiful: warm your home and soul with contemporary fireplace designs
Until relatively recently, fireplaces were similar in function and aesthetics.
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Explore contemporary fireplace designs that blend bold aesthetics with functionality, offering unique ways to warm your home.
- Suspended fires hang from the ceiling, creating a sculptural, space-saving focal point.
- Double-sided fires elegantly divide open-plan areas or connect indoor/outdoor spaces.
- Freestanding fires now feature slim, vertical designs with bespoke colour options.
- Built-in fireplaces offer a sleek, panoramic look that can be safely integrated into cabinetry for a minimalist finish.
Suspended Fires
Double-Sided Fires
This application of a double-sided fireplace shares light and warmth to different areas of a Versatile family home by Rogan Nash Architects.
Freestanding Fires
This highly efficient, clean-burning Ethos Phoenix freestanding fire, one of the only wood burners available in New Zealand suitable for airtight construction, is the singular heat source in a cleaver little home by Chaney & Norman Architects in Luggate
Built-In Fireplaces
A minimilist fireplace design adds effortless ambience to this modern Mt Maunganui home by Studio2 Architects
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