Fireplace Area Design Steps
FIREPLACE CABINETS DESIGN STEPS:
1. Would you like (a) Free-Standing Cabinets; (b) Built-In Cabinets; or (c) Apparently Built-in Cabinets?
To help you to decide, please follow the links to these examples:
(a) Free-Standing Cabinets: Many people like to keep their future options open, by procuring a pair of free-standing cabinets that they can take with them to their next home, or pass on to their children. View the following examples:
(b) Built-In Cabinets: With a classic design, in keeping with the home’s architecture and the adjacent kitchen, built-in cabinetry is a good value-increasing investment in your home. View the following examples:
• Jewell Fireplace
• Jochem Fireplace
• Corsi Fireplace Built-ins
• Wolfe Fireplace Built-ins
• McCarthy Fireplace Built-ins
(c) Apparently Built-in Cabinets: Please refer to our Entertainment Center Design Steps for a discussion of this option. We can design and build your cabinets with finished sides and “filler boards” to connect the cabinets to your current house walls and fireplace structure, while allowing you to take the cabinets to a future home and use them as freestanding cabinets – or connect them to the walls of your next home.
2. IS THERE A TELEVISION ON THE SCENE?
Even if you do not plan to have a television above or beside the fireplace, it is wise to make provisions for the future placement of a television, as this will increase the value of your home for resale, while providing you with the look and functionality what you want for now. In either case, our photographs of fireplace cabinetry with televisions will give you ideas as to design concepts with or without a television.
TELEVISION ABOVE OR BESIDE THE MANTEL?
Our design drawings will help you to make this decision, which will be driven, in part, by the following considerations:
1. Width of the spaces beside the fireplace
2. Proximity of windows and doors in adjacent walls
3. Television size, current and future
4. Personal preferences as to television height, for comfortable viewing
To help you to decide which location is best for you, view some examples in our photo gallery.