How to furnish a living room with a fireplace: the main styles

How can you furnish a living room with a fireplace to create a functional space that meets your style standards? In this article we will provide you with some important tips and suggestions to help you furnish your living room with a classic or modern fireplace, capable of giving great personality to this room of the house.

The fireplace is a fascinating piece of furniture that adds value to the living room. The great comfort and sense of warmth (physical and psychological) that only a fireplace can provide is a priceless benefit in a home.

Today the market is able to offer fireplace lovers the widest range of solutions in terms of style, design and technical aspects. The wide range of fireplaces available on the market allows you to furnish your living room with a classic fireplace, or a particularly modern and innovative one with a more contemporary style.

When choosing the most suitable fireplace for use in a living room, it is always important to focus on the concept of harmony that the room should have. One of the most important aspects when choosing a fireplace is determining the best covering for the wall where the fireplace is to be installed.

Here is everything you need to know.

Living room with fireplace: wall cladding

When installing a fireplace in your living room, the choice of wall cladding is of fundamental importance. In fact, the type of cladding chosen will be the element that immediately catches the eye of people entering your living room for the first time. Today there are many options for cladding a fireplace wall: let's discover them together!

Stone fireplace wall cladding

Stone is a type of cladding that is often and willingly associated with an environment designed according to the dictates of a rustic style: this is only partially true. If balanced in a harmonious way, stone can in fact contribute to creating a particularly sober, minimalist environment that is at the same time elegant and refined. This is why stone can be used for the configuration of the fireplace cladding, in the most varied contexts of style and design.

Cast iron fireplace wall cladding

Cast iron is an excellent material with which to cover the fireplace wall in your living room. Obviously, we are talking about cast iron worked in a modern way.

This type of material is usually used for cladding in situations that could be defined as special and made to measure.

Stoneware fireplace wall cladding

Stoneware is a particularly innovative and commercially successful material today. Stoneware is commonly used for a wide variety of claddings. The great commercial success of this material can be attributed to the infinite creative possibilities of stoneware slabs.

Stoneware slabs are able to recreate the aesthetics of marble, while at the same time being more affordable to purchase and install. If you choose porcelain stoneware to cover the wall in which the fireplace is to be installed, you can count on many aesthetic alternatives (you can even imitate the look of cement).

Fireplace wood storage point

Another aspect that you will need to consider very carefully when configuring your fireplace is determining where to store the wood (if you have decided to purchase and install a classic wood fireplace in your living room).

For this aspect too, today's modern interior design allows you to count on multiple solutions, capable of meeting the widest stylistic requirements. Thanks to the use of plasterboard it will be possible to create structures characterised by great compactness and elegance, inside which wood can be stored.

A good solution for storing wood in the wall of the fireplace is the creation of a small niche in the wall. This can be defined in the design phase of the fireplace. The niche you are going to create can also be divided into several shelves (of different heights, so as to create a pleasant and harmonious visual effect and play).

Fireplaces in special walls

In some living room configurations with fireplace and TV (wall with modern fireplace and TV), the systems are located in special walls: these are large structures that already include an integrated hold for the preparation and storage of wood. We are mostly talking about configurations characterised by great breadth and impressiveness, with well-defined geometries and lines and basically cold colours that accentuate the minimalist character.

The apparent stylistic hardness of these configurations is mitigated by the presence of the wood stored along the entire height of the wall.

These special walls can sometimes take the form of special sheet metal columns, to be inserted next to the fireplace wall.

Design containers for wood storage

If, due to the configuration of your living room, it is not possible to build a structure on the wall for storing wood, the alternative could be to purchase a design container to perform this function. In this regard, you can decide to purchase a basket with lines and style similar to those of the fireplace wall or even a painted steel structure with special aluminium inserts, so as to expose the wood to view.

Special hardened steel sheets are now available on the market: these elements will allow you to contain the wood logs, customising their shape.