When
it comes to choosing a suitable fireplace there are a wide variety
of options available. What you select depends on three main
factors: What do you like? What fits in with the style/age of
your property? What is allowed ie. (if the property is Grade
I listed)
 If
you are looking for an individual fireplace design tailored
absolutely to your specification, brick could well be the material
for you. The vast majority of brick fireplaces are built on
site by skilled craftsmen who have the design expertise to build
a fireplace, which will be pleasing to the eye generation after
generation.
Brick, for fireplaces, is a popular material, particularly in
the south east of England where the local London brick has been
used extensively as a building material. Brick has the advantage
as a material of being in modular form, with a whole host of
special shapes and sizes available. Small handmade brick makers
like HG Matthews of Bellingdon, near Chesham in Buckinghamshire,
have 80 or 90 different brick moulds which can provide rounded
corners, castilations and other architectural ornamentation,
which changes a standard brick design fireplace into something
special.
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