Build Your Own Brick Fireplace

Brick fireplace ideas often hinge on a great mantel.

Build your own brick fireplace.

A masonry fireplace consists of a brick or stone firebox a brick or stone chimney and more often than not a wood mantel. This is the perfect rustic mantelpiece for any fireplace in a home with farmhouse warm minimalist or earthy decor. Cut the metal lath with a utility knife to fit inside the painter s tape so the dimensions of the fireplace are. Use a bendable board and wooden planks to create the frame of the fireplace s arch.

How to build an indoor brick fireplace step 1. Building the fireplace s walls arch and throat proceed to recreating your outdoor fireplace building plan and construct its walls stacking the bricks around the firebox and adding a layer of ordinary mortar mix between them. Apply the corbelling technique. It s a lot easier learning how to build a fireplace like this in new.

This plan works great with gas or wood fireplaces but can also be used over a wood burning stove. Chunky textured wooden mantel for your fireplace. Proper detailing and construction can also contribute to the overall performance of the fireplace. Brick masonry residential fireplaces can be made more energy efficient by providing a source of combustion and draft air drawn from the exterior of the structure.

Brick and stone construction is extremely heavy and requires a solid base to keep the fireplace from settling. You ll make quite the statement with this extra long fireplace mantel up against a brick wall. Mark the dimensions of the fireplace against the wall and the footprint of the fireplace on the floor using. If you ve decided to build your own outdoor fireplace consider these general guidelines.

While photographing the article build a fireplace brick by brick with experienced mason mike mehaffey deputy editor matt millham brought the fine homebuilding video team along to capture the process of building a modern fireplace inspired by the classic rumford design. It can really make or break your brick fireplace look. This is the companion video to our recent article on building a rumford style fireplace. Are you actually looking for a much more challenging and hands on project because you do like we said before have experience with more intense renovations and you fully believe that you can build your own full fireplace from scratch.

The wooden mantel stretches across the whole length of the brick wall giving you lots of room for your decor.