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Chimney breast in middle of room.
Special attention needs to be used where the chimney breast is on a party wall with a neighbouring property or where the chimney breast of an upper floor is going to be removed while leaving a working fire in the room below in the latter case partial removal is possible but a smaller chimney breast for the fire below must be left in place.
Makes no difference to the actual space of course.
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Want to remove the chimney breast when we get in.
At stage of having surveys done.
Chimney jambs similarly project from the wall but they do so on either side of the fireplace and serve to support the chimney breast.
Stucco is a great material for brining a chimney breast forwards into a room with a softer curve.
Here we ve been able to maximise worktop space elsewhere in the room and make a real feature of the chimney breast.
It will create lots of dust and debris so the room should be cleared and sealed off from the rest of the property as much as possible.
A chimney breast is a portion of a chimney which projects forward from a wall to accommodate a fireplace.
A kitchen in the extension would have taken up too much space so the team decided to locate the cooking area in the middle room behind the chimney breast.
A similar approach was taken in this ground floor flat as the architects at resi were careful to keep the original structural wall and chimney breast in the centre of the room.
And decorating your chimney breast in a different tone from the rest of the room is another style option to think over.
Should i find out if we can before we sign and who would give me that advice.
Chimney in middle of two rooms.
Putting feature paper on a chimney breast makes a room feel smaller because you are more aware of the chimney breast intruding into the room.
If the chimney breast you want to decorate is situated in the kitchen like one of ours a fantastic use of space is to open up a portion of the wall and fit a freestanding or counter top stove within it.
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Better to have the feature either side in the recesses.
It draws the eye beyond the chimney especially if it s a small room.
Removing an internal chimney breast however is a mess job.
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With a traditional right angled breast consider setting your fireplace in the corner rather than in the middle.
Typically on the ground floor of a structure the masonry extends upwards containing a flue which carries smoke out of the building through a chimney stack.
