The desire for comfort comfort is laid in each of us. Heat of homemade focus is non-empty words. What could be better than spending evenings by the fireplace, watching the flames? Owners of private houses can afford a real fireplace, and for residents of urban apartments, unfortunately, non-disabilities. But for real masters there is no impossible, and today we will tell how to make a false fireplace in the apartment.

What is a false fireplace and why he need

In the urban apartment, establish an ordinary fireplace to you will not allow the conditions. The absence of chimneys, overlap, not designed for such loads - the main obstacles in order to obtain permission to build such a structure. False fireplaces come to the rescue, which you can easily collect yourself without having special skills in construction work.

Of course, you can buy electrocamine - such devices are now distributed, and their installation will not take much time and strength. But the creation of the fireplace with her own hands is a very exciting occupation, it gives the will of fantasy, allows you to make an exclusive thing. In addition, the open fire in the conditions of the apartment is optional (and it is unlikely that you will allow it), and the false fireplace will serve you with a multifunctional scenery.

Note! Although you will not be able to light the fire in the false fireplace, you still do not put in thenime flammable things. Especially if the construction covers the heating batteries or you plan to put electrical appliances into the furnace.

Falsh fireplace looks like a real

Artificial fireplaces have such advantages:

• low cost - you will need money only for materials;
• availability of materials required for the manufacture of the design;
• the ability to change the decor at any time by the mood;
• use in decorating inexpensive, but original and beautiful materials.

Falsh fireplaces are divided into 3 groups:

1. Reliable artificial fireplaces fully imitate real, observing both the sizes and the principles of design. Inside the furnace, you can set the biocamine burner, which will ensure the almost accurate effect of the burning focus. Pretty expensive option, but it looks the most believable.
2. The conditional false fireplaces have a portal protruding from the wall. They can be decorated to taste and desire. The heat hole is usually filled with firewood or put candles there.
3. Symbolic can be performed from any materials. Their feature is that they are not at all like an ordinary fireplace. It may even be drawd on the wall with some elements of the decor.

Production options

For the manufacture of artificial fireplaces, use the simplest materials that can always be found not only in the store, but also at home:

• plasterboard;
• plywood;
• styrofoam;
• cardboard;
• wood;
• brick;
• polyurethane.

You can make such a structure even from old furniture, which has already served your own, but also sorry.

This is the easiest and fastest way. You only need to buy a polyurethane portal for the fireplace. The most difficult thing in this task will be the choice of style and suitable for the size room, and everything else will take you at least for a minimum of time and effort.

If you want to insert electrocamine, consider its installation and overall dimensions, the method of connecting to the power grid and the quality of ventilation.

The light housing of the false fireplace from polyurethane will relieve you from many settles

You will need:

• polyurethane portal for the fireplace;
• contact glue;
• putty;
• materials for furnishing of the furnace (for example, decorative brick).

Now let's talk step by step how to install such a fireplace.

1. The best place to install such a fireplace is one of the side walls of the room. The construction should not clutter the room and interfere with the passage.
2. If you decide to place an electrofire or decorative electrical backlight inside the portal, pre-take care of the wiring and socket.
3. Frame frames Run from the profile or wooden bars, and the walls are from plywood or drywall.
4. Install the portal, carefully secure it on the contact glue. The gaps between the portal and the furnace gently cover the finish shp can.
5. Complete the furnace in the style that chose, or install the electrocamine. If you wish, you can install a fireplace shelf of artificial stone or wood.

Such portals are manufactured not only from polyurethane, but also from wood. They are much more expensive, but among them you can meet real masterpieces, additionally staffed, for example, the built-in bar.

Construction of plywood

This idea is useful if you need to hide some lack of a room, for example, an old heating radiator, the replacement of which will cost Nedlyozy. The false fireplace here will have to be likewise.

Need to cover the old heating radiator - an excellent opportunity to install a false fireplace

Calculations and draw a drawing of the future facilities. It will help you do not waste extra money and time.

Check-in standard fireplace

Note! When you develop a drawing, refer to the finished variants of fireplaces from stone. Relying on them, you can easily design your false fireplace.

First of all, right at the place install the framework. Wooden bars are suitable for it.

Frame from bars for a false fireplace

Next, cut the frame plywood. The design of the fireplace and its appearance can be adjusted during operation. For example, you can add a podium to the portal. Inside the design there is a heating battery, so the frame is better to collect on screws: nails in high temperature conditions do not guarantee a dense fit of plywood to Brukes in the future.

Hydroned carcass trimmed

On the rear wall, fasten the firebox on the bar, which mimics the fireplace. All surfaces viewing outside, plunder with self-adhesive film.

Install the firebox and take it with a film

Close the corners of the portal with wooden layout, it will also be punched with a film of the same color.

Portal angles need to be closed and also puncture

Such a design is obtained easily (it is not attached to the wall at this stage), and you can easily get access to the radiator. The fireplace of the fireplace is needed to decorate something, so you can put a tray from a metal grid on the battery.

Metal grid tray that will become the bottom of the furnace

You will fill in pebbles, firewood or other decorative elements.

Push up in a metal grid pebbles or another filler

You can order a fireplace lattice or make yourself. To do this, you will need a copper profile. If it is not, the aluminum wire is suitable, inserted into the tube from the chlorineal and painted with gold paint. To the fireplace housing, such a grid is fastened with copper wire in 4 places.

Metal lattice scheme

Pipes that are suitable for the battery can be closed by a continuation of the podium.

Heating pipes Close the podium

So that the useful space does not disappear for nothing, do a bar under the fireplace shelf.

Using additional space

As a result, you will have such a fireplace, almost indistinguishable from the present.

Finished false fireplace

New life of old furniture

This is the most budget option. You will probably have an old wardrobe or a servant. Do not hurry to throw out this piece of furniture: based on it you can easily make an excellent imitation of the fireplace with backlight.

you will need:

• plywood sheets;
• grinding machine on wood;
• electrolovik;
• screwdriver;
• acrylic paint;
• putty;
• lED Strip Light;
• stucco, decorative elements, gypsum finishing stone;
• surfaces.

1. Remove the doors from the old servant, remove the bottom end. The upper section will remain, place it.

   Preparation of an old servant for work

2. In front, screw two bars.

   Screw 2 timber

3. On top and bottom, fasten two plywood sheets on the bars. Thus, the fireplace will be attached to the necessary thickness.

   Secure plywood sheets

4. Drink in the door of the side locker (which is now below) a hole for "pondered". Here you can store firewood, as in the present fireplace.

   Drink a hole for "pissed"

5. Your false fireplace will require a pedestal and a fireplace regiment. Two backs from the old bed can perform in their quality. Do not forget to unscrew the legs.

   A pedestal and manpower will serve back the bed

6. The design is ready, now you need to start finishing work. Treat polished surfaces of grinding so that they become rough. Wall leaks; After they are driving - prcribpt and align the surface. Seeing the shp can, sand irregularity. Color acrylic paint housing, separate the corners with brick or artificial stone. Stick decorative elements, install the fireplace shelf.

   Finishing of a false fireplace from old furniture

7. Place the furnace. In the perimeter, hide the LED tape. It will come up with red or yellow - they will smell the smaller fire perfectly. On the bottom of the seashells, pebbles or sand.

   Place: Pan the LED tape, pour on the bottom of the pebbles, shells or sand

As a result, you will get such a magnificent fireplace in a vintage style.

Ready False Fireplace from Old Survant

Imitation of a firewall fireplace

This time we will look at the version of the angular false fireplace from drywall. This task will be more complicated. Why exactly the corner fireplace? Because in the conditions of a small apartment angle - the most free place that is ideal for installing such a structure.

Corner False Fireplace of Gypsum

So, you will need the following materials:

• metal profile - 13 pcs;
• plasterboard moisture resistant 9.5 mm - 3 sheets;
• tile - 5 m;
• self-tapping screw - 200 pcs;
• tile grout;
• lED Strip Light;
• decorative lattice.

1. Calculate the sizes. At the same time, consider: if you need to close the battery, it is necessary to make it so that it can be easily reached for it. For possible emergencies, it is better to start the battery through the bottom right.

   Approximate scheme of the corner fireplace

2. After the calculations are made, and the fireplace scheme is composed, start mounting the frame. A ceiling profile will be used for him, besides, it is cheaper.
3. Immediately make wiring for backlight. As you can see on the first photo, in our case there are three output points: two on the facade and one above the shelf. A LED tape is used as a backlight.
4. The furnace opening can be made with double walls. Between them will be laid a non-combustible insulation.

   Decorative Tiles False Fireplace

5. For decorative trim, you can use a tile under the stone. It is made of plaster, so it is not suitable for working surfaces.

This fireplace takes about 1.6 square meters. You can put a small electrocamine or a small alcoholic burner inside the furnace.

Finish

It is very important that the fireplace fit harmoniously into the interior of the room. You should carefully pick up style, color. But besides, the decorative finish should please the eye and create comfort.

How to achieve imitation of fire in the fireplace? Above, we offered options with LED ribbon, which provides illumination with the effect of combustion. But the progress does not stand still, and the electronic photo frame can serve you. It is a liquid crystal display that is adapted to display pictures. You need a model capable of playing animated files, for example, in GIF format. Put the image of a burning fire on the photo frame and enjoy!

• Many owners of false fireplaces love to make a niches with plates with plates of different heights. It looks beautiful, stylish, and gives a real live fire.
• An excellent choice will be the installation of a mirror in the depths of the coil niche, on the wall. The mirror will multiply the chucks from the candles or the electrical backlight and give the fireplace mystery.
• Effect of expensive finishing will help you artificial stone. It is represented in a variety of color and text options. Tiles, bas-reliefs and decorative tiles will give expressive personality to the construction. But do not overdo it: excessive pompousness may not be at the place in your interior.
• Doors for false fireplaces, perhaps, will be superfluous, but if you decide to install them, make them from the plexiglass. They can be transparent or tinted, but the light and glare "fire" simply miss.
• It is better to produce the fireplace of imitation of the fireplace forged metal grille. It can be bought or order in the workshop.

Photo gallery of artificial fireplaces

Original and concise option - Simple niche with candles

Video: how to make a false fireplace from drywall do it yourself

As you can see, build a fireplace at home is not at all difficult, and besides, cheap, especially if it is only imitation. Accuracy, attention, the desire to do something original and creative fantasy - that's all you need in order to enjoy the comfort of the heroes of classic film. Share with us your experience in implementing such ideas, or ask the questions that have arisen on this topic. Light you work and comfort your home!

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The fireplace is able to make even the most dull interior of the room much comfortable and comfortable. But there is such a pleasure quite expensive, and not always in the apartment there is an opportunity to establish something like that. But there is a way out. You can make a false fireplace with your own hands with absolutely any shape and sizes, and it is so simple that the process itself does not take much time and will not require the presence of special skills.

Can a fireplace be artificial

The false fireplace is a design, externally reminiscent of a real fireplace, but without smoking. In some cases, it is just an element of the decor of the room, in other cases there is still an element of the imitation of a live flame, for example, as in electrical installations.

Falsh fireplace can be an excellent decor in the room of any area.

The main advantages of such a design can be considered absolute security (if, of course, you did not decide to install a set of candles in the portal) and the low cost compared to the real fireplace. In addition, there are other advantages of false fireplaces:

• it is allowed to install even in the apartment, while the real fireplace is forbidden to be mounted in an apartment building;
• with it, you can disguise defects and shortcomings of the room, for example, hide the battery or pipe, and it is also advantageous to use the so-called deaf zones, for example, angle;
• from above and on the side you can equip the shelves for the decor and storage of razel trifles;
• to emphasize the stylistic focus of the room, for example, when choosing a baroque style or another classic.

The false fireplace will be appropriate even in the children's room

Types of designs

There are several types of false fireplaces that can be installed in their own apartment:

There is another classification based on such a design site:

• suspension;
• confused;
• angular;
• built-in;
• island.

What can be done

If you are a lover to make crafts, then for the manufacture of a decorative fireplace, you can use absolutely any building material, including it is suitable for it:

1. Brick. It allows you to create an artificial focus as close as possible to this. For mounting, you can choose a decorative or facing brick. The disadvantages of such a design are largely mass, and therefore, it can be mounted only after checking the overlap on the ability to withstand this weight. However, there are benefits, in addition to naturalness. Such a false fireplace can not be faced with anything.

   The brick false fireplace is maximally similar to the present

2. Plates with laminated coating. Before using this material, it is necessary to make a drawing, on which it is necessary to specify all the dimensions of the future design. The drawing is needed in order to make crucified material. Lovers of chipboard have similar properties, however, such a design is required further finish, for example, foam "bricks".

   Fireplace from sheets with laminated coating looks very concise

3. Polyurethane. As a rule, this material is used to finish the finished design. However, special details, for example, moldings, platbands and semi-column, can be glued straight to the wall and decorate them accordingly. Using the decor and trying various applications with the subservation, it can be turned into an unusual piece of interior. There is another advantage - if desired, such a fireplace can be repainted in any color. This allows you to update the interior with minimal investments in a short time.

   Polyurethane fireplace can be simply glued to the wall

4. Plasterboard. This material is most popular for the manufacture of false fireplaces. It has undoubted advantages - simplicity of assembly and a combination with other finishing materials. If desired, the plasterboard design can be decorated in any style, and therefore it will suit any interior. In addition, you can build a design of any complexity. Artificial focus can be deep, with a square or round portal, with columns or minimalistic. You can change the cladding without parsing the entire structure, which is very convenient.

   Most often, the false fireplace is made of drywall

5. Wood. Using this material, you can make a false fireplace that will be part of the furniture headset, which means it will be made in the same style as the entire design of the room.

   Wooden false fireplace can be artificially

In addition to those listed, for the manufacture of a false fireplace, you can use both infirred materials, such as cardboard boxes or old furniture.

Drawings with dimensions

The design dimensions are largely dependent directly from the area of \u200b\u200bthe room where it will be installed. For example, an angular installation for a small room may have a depth of 330 mm, and a length of 1,300 mm.

A small room can be decorated with a wallal false fireplace. In this case, the size of the design is recommended to slightly reduce, for example, to make a portal with parameters 1 360 * 500 * 1,050 mm.

In a small room you can install a wall or mounted fireplace

When installing a false fireplace in the mid-size room, more features appear:

• you can make a more massive design, decoring it with additional decorative elements, such as columns and stucco;
• it is allowed to use not only shelves, but also countertops, but only if the partition is able to withstand such a design;
• place an artificial fireplace in the center of the room, and not just near the wall.

The drawing must be indicated the dimensions of each part.

When placing a classic-style room, a false fireplace can be massive with appropriate decorations. For example, the size of the lower part can be 1,500 mm, the top is 1,490 mm, and the depth is 345 mm.

If you want an artificial fireplace to look and attractive, and expensive, and status, then for decoration it is recommended to use artificial and natural stone, wrought elements, a tree of valuable rocks.

In the large room, the Falsh Fireplace can be installed in the center of the room

When making a copy of the fireplace for a large living room, you can be guided by the following rules:

• island location, thanks to which you can create a very massive and unusual design, which will perform several functions at once;
• it is impossible to use a mounted construction;
• the wall-mounted feathering partition should be so not to deform under the action of a large weight of the structure.

Falsh fireplace may look like a home oven

How to make a false fireplace do it yourself - step-by-step instructions

You can make an unreal fireplace from any building material. It all depends on your imagination and financial opportunities.

From drywall

A corner design of drywall is very original. Such a false fireplace can be installed even if the room is too small for any such devices, because it can be used and as a place for storage. For its manufacture, you need to prepare:

• metal profile - 13 pcs.;
• gypsum Carton with a thickness of 9.5 mm, better moisture resistant - 3 sheets;
• tile - 5 m;
• self-tapping screw - 200 pcs.;
• grout for ceramic tiles of the corresponding color;
• lED ribbon imitating fire;
• decorative lattice.

Made an angular decorative fireplace from drywall in accordance with the following instruction:

1. Calculate the sizes correctly. In the event that the design you will close the battery, it is necessary to do so that there was free access to it.

   From drywall you can build any complexity

2. Install the framework. To do this, you can use the ceiling metal profile.

   Ceiling profile suitable for the frame

3. Place the electrical wiring if an electric fireplace is installed in the portal. In such a fireplace there must be a minimum of three outputs: two on the facade and one above the shelf. For additional illumination, the LED tape will suit.
4. Separate the heat hole. Here you need to make two walls, between which you need to put any non-combustible material.

   The fireplace of the fireplace must have two walls, between which you need to put a non-combustible material.

5. Now the frame can be chopped by plasterboard. Details need to be cut in advance from the sheets according to the drawing drawn.

   It is necessary to cut the parts from the hyposkarton in advance.

6. Make a few holes in the trim. They are needed so that warm air can circulate freely.

   Holes are needed for air circulation

7. Lower with ceramic tiles or any other material. It is better to give preference to the facade tile, since it is resistant to temperature differences and negative external influences. You can also use the gypsum tile by imitating the stone. In this case, it is recommended to use heat-resistant glue.

   When using facing bricks, you can make a fireplace very similar to this

Such a fireplace will take the area just 1.5 m 2.

Video: Falsh-fireplace from drywall

Reuse of cardboard boxes

You can make a scenery in the form of a fireplace and from large cardboard boxes. They must be as dense as possible, must keep the form well. To do this, prepare:

• cardboard boxes of different sizes (4 pcs. Large and 5-6 pcs. small);
• white paper, which can be replaced by wallpaper;
• glue;
• scotch;
• color cardboard, paint or wallpaper with a drawing of bricks.

Produce a false fireplace from cardboard boxes is needed in the following sequence:

1. Put the boxes in the order in which they must be in the finished version.

   For a fireplace, you can use boxes of different sizes

2. Now you can connect these boxes with each other. To do this, it is very convenient to use tape.
3. After the frame will be made, it needs to be placed white paper or wallpaper. For this purpose, you can use or tape, or PVA glue. All edges should be even, for what you need to cut the paper in the corners.

   Scotch or glue can be used for attachment

4. Separately make the upper shelf, which is also placed by white paper, and then fasten on the prepared frame.

   The shelf in a cardboard fireplace must also be

5. Cut from red cardboard bricks, which further paste on the frame using the stationery glue. Instead of colored cardboard bricks, you can use decorated wallpapers. Also bricks can be simply painted.

   Bricks can be made of cardboard

6. The upper surface can be left without decor or to cover paint.

   Cardboard fireplace is very easy and mobile

Video: fireplace from the boxes do it yourself

From wood

By similar technology, you can make a design or chipboard or plywood:

1. According to the drawing, cut all the necessary details.
2. Collect the frame from the bar. It will be necessary to mount all other wooden parts. In this case, you can immediately use several methods of fixation: spool, gluing, compound with hardware. The choice of the fastening method depends on the exclusivity from the required reliability of fixation.
3. Secure on the collected frame decorative elements from bars of different sizes, moldings.
4. Exterior finish. There are several exterior finishing option. Such a false fireplace can be simply covered with white paint, lining with tiled or decorative brick.
5. The decor of the furnace, which will give the maximum truthfulness of the fireplace. For construction from wood, it is recommended to use natural and decorative accessories, such as fir branches, cones, dry firewood.

In order to make the design less massive, some wooden parts can be replaced with plywood elements.

Video: Decorative fireplace with their own hands

From polyurethane

To make a false fireplace from this material, you must first select the style of the product, as well as in the case of using an electric fireplace for the portal to take into account the size of this device, the method of its connection, as well as the need for ventilation. Additionally, you need to prepare:

• polyurethane portal;
• stuslo;
• metal hacksaw;
• roulette;
• drill;
• glue;
• putty;
• sandpaper;
• facing material.

The installation process itself occurs in the following sequence:

1. Decide with the installation site. It is best to do it on the side wall of the room. Moreover, it is necessary to place a false fireplace from polyurethane so that it does not interfere with free movement.

   Falsh fireplace from polyurethane very easy to make himself

2. Installation of socket. This stage is required if an electronics will be located inside the portal. The wiring must correspond to the voltage used, the rosette itself needs to be located as close as possible to the false fireplace.
3. Preparation of the wall surface. It must be aligned and clean.
4. Applying markings on polyurethane. This information can be taken from the drawing prepared in advance.
5. Fixation of polyurethane parts. For fastening parts you need to use special contact glue and screws. This is allowed to increase the reliability of the design and extend the life of its operation. During this process, it is necessary to carefully ensure that the corners of the parts relate to each other. In advance for self-tapping screws, you need to do the holes of the drill.

   For the convenience of manufacture, the whole design can be first decomposed on the floor

6. Exterior finish. There are several options for a false fireplace from polyurethane. Luccin can be found or secured on special glue, or self-drawing. The second option is more reliable, but there is a risk that the hats of the screws will be visible to the unarmed look. Therefore, when using a mechanical fastening method, an additional decor of the connection places is recommended.

   Cut polyurethane can be knife

It is possible to give the aesthetics of the design if it is after the manufacturer to sharpen, primed and paint.

Video: Montage of the fake fireplace stucco from polyurethane

From old furniture

Turn the old cabinet or dresser is the most budget option for the manufacture of a false fireplace. To turn, you will need:

• plywood;
• grinding with a tree nozzle;
• lobzik;
• screwdriver;
• paint, the best acrylic;
• putty;
• lED Strip Light;
• plaster stucco.

After preparing all the necessary tools and material, you must follow the following instructions:

1. Remove the doors from the servant, remove extra boxes and courses.

   From the servant you need to remove all the doors and drawers

2. Install two bar in front.

   In addition to the frame, there will be more bars and plywood sheets

3. Attach plywood sheets, which to form a portal opening.

   You can independently set the size of the furnace

4. Make a hole for pushed. It can have any shape, the most ergonomic will be semicircle. Also, the space can serve for waters.

   Confused can serve for storage of firewood

5. Make a pedestal and decorative shelf. For this purpose, you can take the backrest of the old bed, you first need to unscrew the legs from these parts.

   The fireplace needs a pedestal and shelf

6. Start the external finish of the false fireplace. All polished surfaces of the cabinet need to be treated with a grinding machine, further predict them, sharpen and thoroughly align. After the shplanke dries, the surface is treated with emery paper. Now the false fireplace can be painted, after which it is separated by a facing material, for example, facing bricks. Finish the work you need to stick all the decorative elements and installing the shelf.

   For finishing, you can use any facing material.

7. Place the space of the furnace. For something around the perimeter, lay a LED ribbon of orange or yellow color. On the bottom you can put stones or shells.

   To simulate fire, you can use LED ribbon

When this manual is followed, you can create a false fireplace in any style.

No one can guess that the fireplace was turned into a fireplace from the decorative brickholder of a false fireplace of large-sized bricks, foundation may be required.

From brick

The false fireplace of the brick looks most natural. With its manufacture, it is necessary to strictly follow the laying technology, otherwise the design will be unreliable and quickly collapsed. You need to prepare in advance:

• brick - 25 pcs.;
• steel strip for overlapping;
• one-piece 4 cm thick and more for the fireplace shelf;
• cement mortar.

For a fireplace, you can set the standard sizes of the base 900 * 250 mm and the furnaces 500 * 380 mm. The mass of such a design will not exceed 100 kg, and therefore, the additional foundation will not need.

For a false fireplace of large-sized bricks, foundation may be required.

The method of manufacturing a false fireplace of bricks Next:

1. First you need to prepare a solution. It is better to purchase a special powder intended for such work. It is enough to dissolve water in the proportions indicated on the package.
2. Stay out of the brick base in Pollipich, after which you can go to the walls and the furnace. Walls spread the brick thickness with overlapping seams.
3. On top of the frame to lay the shelf or attach a worktop.
4. Decorate the furnace. To do this, you can glue the film with the image of the brick on the rear wall, put candles or a twig in the fire itself. Instead of a film, you can use a mirror, so that the depth of the furnace will seem more.

What makes fire

In a false fireplace, in no case can the real fire can be found, even if the design was made of bricks. To simulate a flame, you can use:

Video: how to make an artificial fire

How to decorate

To decorate a false fireplace, you can use anything. Depends on the reason and your imagination, be it mystical Halloween, a fabulous New Year or a cozy photo session, simply add additional elements and cute details.

Decor from candles, it is probably a classic of all time. The composition of them can be positioned in the furnace or on the upper shelf, and it is not necessary that the candles are the same in height. The design will look much more interesting due to the combination in it and large, and small items.

Candles can be not only inside the firebox

You can fill the firebox and log in, because it is for this a fireplace and is used. If you wish, they can be painted under the color of the false fireplace itself.

Brother in the fireplace can be laid either slide or cut out

The books in the Falke-Fireplace firebox look very unusually. Moreover, it can be a very peculiar way of their storage.

Falsh fireplace can serve as a place to store books

Most often decorated with a false fireplace for the new year. Christmas socks for gifts, fir branches, wreaths and garlands.

Photo Gallery: Ideas for inspiration - decorate an artificial fireplace

In the firebox of a false fireplace will look very appropriate to the fireplace. It is customary to hang socks for gifts The fireplace picture is ideal for the children's room and even on the wedding day you can be photographed near the pumpkin fireplace.

They rightly served a man many centuries. Entering the XXI century, we kept attachment to a cozy heat source, but how to solve the problem in city housing?

How to make a decorative fireplace with your own hands? Design and materials

Obviously, our apartments are not adapted to construction of a full fireplace. Technically, this is completely impossible task, especially in an apartment building. However, for those who would like to decorate the interior with such an element, there is a solution, and it consists in the facilitation of a false fireplace. It retains the external signs of a full-fledged focus, but does not require the arrangement of chimney and fireboxes. Moreover, make a false fireplace with their own hands full of task.

Since the imitation of the focus does not require the cardinal reconstruction of the room and special skills in its device, the design of the false fireplace depends only from the imagination of the homemade craftsman. The main thing is the focus frame. It can be made of metal profiles, wooden bars and rails or simply use an overhead panel with a decorative furnace windows. The dimensions of the constructed element of the interior depend on the size of the room itself, where it will be placed.

False fireplaces: varieties and features

When planning to install a false fireplace in the interior, decide what kind of you most suitable for you. Designers subdivide them on reliable, conditional and symbolic.

Decorative fireplace boxes

Reliable models of fireplaces

In them, all the parameters of the real fireplace are carefully observed, except for the withdrawal of chimney. Full copy is achieved by installing in the "fire" Biocamine burner or ordinary electrocamine. To decorate it, tiles and wallpapers are used, and a stone.

Conditional fireplace

Niche in the wall, portal (Make a portal for the fireplace with your own hands is also easy), imitating the heat hole and decorated candelabrams, firewood and other attributes of this fireplace. Such a model does not require a large depth, sufficiently 20 centimeters, and it is possible to give the internal volume using a mirror tile, cursed on the sides and the rear panel of the niche.

Symbolic False Fireplace (Drawn Fireplace)

It is rather a drawing on the wall than a full-fledged structure. It can be made of conventional ceiling plintus, indicating only the shape, without depth.

Product Stylistics: Fireplace With Your Hands of Brick, Natural Stone and Tree

For lovers of antiquity, it may be stylization under medieval models using. The spacious living room looks perfectly a bulk false fireplace with a wide fireplace shelf and a deep niche "Fires", which are actively using decor details. It can be a stack of firewood, and family photos, and floral compositions.

Decorative Gypsum Cartridge Fireplace

In the modern interior of the High-tech style or modern, the false fireplace of plasterboard acquires the most unexpected outlines. He can act as a central element furniture wall and be filled with books or carry an individual load, appearing in the form of stylish art object From black glass.

Tip! Want to see fire in the furnace, use reflective material to finish its internal space (foil or mirror). Install electrical candles Or LEDs - and a false fireplace will give a feeling of heat.

For the bedroom organic ampir or classicMade in warm colors. White panels with bizarre stucco are brought into the interior a soft note of the home coat, and the decorative framing of the false fireplace tree fills the placement of the sophistication of aristocracy. In addition, this subject can be peculiar toilet tableIf you put the mirror over it.

Despite the presence of original solutions, the false fireplace remains the most popular. And professional, and home designers choose to decorate the candles. They are installed in the furnace hole, and on the fireplace shelf. Pick in size and color, line up in various combinations, put just on the floor or placed in multi-tiered candelabra.

Artificial fire for the fireplace and imitation of the flame in the fireplace do it yourself

Some masters resort to the help of paints and paint in the firebox with their own hands. With properly selected lighting, it turns out a stylish product resembling a burning focus.

The spectacular solution will be the acquisition of a mobile false fireplace, which will help you in the furniture workshop, which will allow you to not tie an interior figure to the stationary subject of the decor, but to use it in different rooms.

The article is designed to help the reader figure out how to make a decorative fireplace. The various varieties of materials are disassembled below, two step-by-step master class are proposed.

For ease of reading, the article is divided into several chapters:

• overview of materials;
• finishing tips;
• two master classes on the creation of a decorative fake fireplace with their own hands from plasterboard and plywood;

The conclusion provides a small review on the most popular models of finished fireplaces.

In a classic interior

Purpose of decorative fireplaces

Several tens of years ago, the fireplace served as the source of heating in the house, has long been burning firewood and coal for heating room. Now the need for it disappeared - more modern and ergonomic heating systems did not leave him and the chance of competition, making it a remnant of the past.

Decorative fireplace in the interior of the living room

The need for such visualization of heat still exists in humans. Not every home and apartment allow the installation of the fireplace, because decorative false fireplaces came to the rescue. It will not give a completely natural smell and fire, but it is able to create a pleasant atmosphere of comfort in the room.

Important: False fireplaces have no restrictions on use - installed in an absolutely any room. The login range has a huge number of proposals that are used in the premises and on the verandas or in conversations.

In a big house

What makes a decorative portal for the fireplace do it yourself - the advantages and disadvantages of materials

Decorative portal for the fireplace makes from a wide list of materials:

• plasterboard;
• brick;
• styrofoam;
• LDSP;
• poleurethan.

In black color

Plasterboard

Plasterboard presents extruded sheets of plaster bonded by a solid cardboard on the sides. The material is used in construction, it is well suited to make a decorative fireplace from drywall with their own hands (false fireplace). It is used when erecting partitions in apartments and private houses, when installing ceilings.

In the painted room

The main advantages of the decorative portal for the fireplace fireplace include:

• ease of work;
• low weight;
• low price.

Gypsum Carton is cut by the ordinary stationery knife, fastened with screws. The surface is putty and painted any paint, and with the proper handling of the design of it almost eternal.

In the bedroom

Important: Light weight will allow the fireplace without restrictions by mass. The frame of plasterboard is easy and will not create any pressure on the base elements of the floor and walls. Low cost is obtained from the low cost of the sheet - 1 square meter costs 300-400 rubles, and expenditure consumables are cheap.

The minuses include:

• fragility;
• low moisture resistance;
• "Disposability" of material.

Plasterboard during damage to the surface protective layer will quickly crumble. Easily pierced with hand or foot. You can get rid of this with a dense fastening of sheets and more frequent placement of profiles, but this spoils the fireplace. Moisture quickly destroys the gypsum. Sheets protect from any wet places.

Fireplace from plaster

Important: With incorrect cut or breakage, plasterboard will have to be completely changed. It is impossible to glue or twist it, because the errors during the calculations are expensive.

Brick

Brick is a classic material for ordinary fireplaces - it is racks to temperature, durable and has a very noble look. For false fireplaces, such properties do not have the value, but the decorative element from it allows you to decorate the room. Brick:

• durable;
• racks to moisture, temperature and mechanical damage;
• relatively easy to work.

With decorative finish

Inside the room brick is almost eternal. In rare cases, when the selected brick was extremely low quality, it begins to crumble, but, recently, such a thing is infrequent. High-quality masonry does not pass water and will not fall apart even from the strongest blows.

Brick is quite convenient to label - it is enough to have little experience and fairly cheap tools. An ordinary decorative portal rarely requires any serious design changes and is manufactured in one day. Difficulties arise when working with used bricks, but for decorative elements, we recommend using a new one.

We will take a minus:

• high weight;
• demanding to the support;
• high cost.

Decorative firewood firewood

High weight is the main negative property - the finished design has a large mass that puts pressure on the surrounding supports. From this quality and the second minus - a durable floor is needed, withstanding the future scenery.

Important: The cost is relatively more than other materials, taking into account that the walls of the design are completely laid out of the brick.

Styrofoam

Polyfoam represents foamed plastic, which is excellent material to make a decorative fireplace with their own hands. Polyfoam has a large number of applications - from the insulation of houses due to its low thermal conductivity to the packaging of technology due to softness. It is used as a decor in any area - it is plastic and convenient to work.

Pluses include:

• easy processing;
• very low weight;
• moisture resistance.

From foamflast

Polyfoam leaf is possible to give any shape. It is treated with a knife and hacksaw. Using a grainy sheet creates similar imitation of stucco or other decorative effects. Low weight is due to the peculiarity of the material - more than half of the volume make up the pores, due to which low weight is achieved under large size.

Important: Polyfoam will not mock - it perfectly pushes water. In rare cases, the grainy foam collapses under the influence of water - this is due to the use of weak glue to fasten individual grains.

In a red room

Main disadvantages:

• collapsed under the influence of various chemicals;
• broken
• easy flashes.

Most adhesives and paints ignore it - the foam structure is rapidly destroyed under the influence of aerosols, nitrates and solvents. Pain flauthes with aqueous or acrylic paint, fasten - with special glue.

The fragility is due to the structure. A sufficiently small impact for his breakdown. The decorative fireplace from it will be quite brittle, which requires special accuracy in circulation. The small mass of the finished product will lead to the need for additional strengthening.

Decorative portal

Important: It is necessary to remember - the foam, like other materials from fuel plastic, is quite easy to focus. The temperature of its burning is much smaller than the tree, which can lead to a fire at a low candle temperature or heating elements.

Ledp.

Laminated wood-chip plate is a pressed mass of a tree with an additional protective coating. It is treated wood chips, which are compressed and glued under high pressure. Lamination gives any appearance.

The main advantages of the portals for the fireplace from LDSP include:

• high strength;
• durability;
• convenience in work.

Falsh fireplace in the interior of LDSP

LDP is similar to a tree, because all the main advantages come from it. It is pretty hard to break, and place the plates are quite convenient - it is enough just to cut them into the desired dimensions and twist among themselves. The mass depends on the specific stove and its thickness, but to make a decorative fireplace with your own hands, use the plates of a small thickness.

The main minuses are:

• low stability of sections to water;
• complex surface treatment with various paints.

The adhesive substance that is used in the process of gluing plates is fairly easily destroyed by water. Moisture extremely quickly destroys the binding links among themselves, which becomes a big problem for the finished design. Water falls through the place of the cut or chip, which causes additionally to protect them from the conditions of the external environment.

In the interior of the room

Laminated coating is poorly colored. It is a polymer layer, which is poorly staining with alkyd, acrylic and water colors - they are not fixed on it, peeling the film. LDSP requires additional coverage for decorating.

Polyurethane

As part of polyurethane, a large number of materials - from liquid and viscous mixtures, to completely solid plastics. The material is used in any construction process - a huge number of forms and textures contribute to this. To make your own hands Falish Fireplace Polyurethane is suitable as it is impossible.

From polyurethane

The advantages of decorative portals for false fireplace from polyurethane include:

• resistance to moisture;
• undepair in care;
• in contrast to foam - greater resistance to various solvents.

Polyurethane is not afraid of water - he does not twist and does not lose its properties. It is used as waterproofing for various pipes that constantly allocate condensate. It does not require care - in extremely rare cases, the surface is contaminated.

The other structure allows you to paint absolutely any paint and not limited to the use of various adhesives and aerosols. Polyurethane racks, its use is permissible and on the street.

In a private house

The main negative parties are:

• easy flammability;
• small weight material.

Polyurethau enough fire matches or cigarettes to melt - it is not much different from polyethylene. There are special fortified sheets on sale, but, their use is comparable at cost with more natural materials. For some species of false fireplaces, this is important - a random spark from the wiring can burn half of the property.

Polyurethane fireplace version

Light weight requires additional consignment, which is not always convenient, especially when the room already has ready-made repair. This is compensated at the expense of a heavier filling.

Imitation of the fireplace with your own hands in the apartment - portal finishing options

Finishing is an individual solution. The fireplace is covered with decorative brick tiles or stained under lime or marble - the absence of real fire leaves a large ground for fantasy.

Idea: For brick fireplaces, it is permissible not to use the finish - the brick itself has a natural look, but it is not difficult to add painting or decorative elements.

From white brick

Most materials require additional processing before decorating - LDSP or foam. Otherwise, various surface defects are extremely noticeable, which will spoil the appearance of the product.

Fireplace decorative with her hands from drywall - Photo, step-by-step instruction

In the master class, it is disassembled how to properly create a false fireplace with your own hands from drywall. Step-by-step instructions and photos are presented later in the article.

The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe decorative-fireplace is the creation of a kind of shelf for equipment and masking of various wires. Since there are no special requirements for it, the usual plasterboard is used, which will be attached to the frame.

For work, materials will be required:

• plasterboard for plating;
• metal profile - wide and narrow;
• screws for drywall;
• decorative brick;
• countertop - for the top of the fireplace.

Denotation	View	Har-Ka.	Application	Cardboard color		Color brand
				on the back side	on the front side
GLC	Normal	–	Used in buildings and rooms with dry and normal regime	grey	grey	blue
GKLO	With increased resistance to exposure to open flame	Differ from the usual special reinforcing additives in the core material		grey	pink	red
G Clac	Moisture-resistant	Differ from the usual use of hydrophobic additives	It is used as both ordinary GLCs, in rooms with high humidity with exhaust ventilation and subject to the protection of the front surface, for example: hydraulic water, waterproof primers, paints, ceramic tiles	green	green	blue
Glover	Moisture-resistant with increased resistance to open flame	Differ from the usual combination of GKLO and GKLV properties		green	green	red

Tip: Brick is chosen to taste. Almost all of them have the same thickness, separated by color and texture. The best option to boost individual bricks - plates can be large for the false fireplace, and they will have to cut.

The tabletop for the fireplace is optional. Instead, use any other material - from this portal for the fireplace will not suffer. For the rear wall, it will take a tree - it will be removable to provide convenient access to rosettes hidden.

From the tools you will use:

• screwdriver;
• level;
• corolnic;
• spatula for attaching decorative bricks;
• scissors for metal.

From the list of tools, you can not roll out exactly anything - everyone represents a basic minimum, without which it will be impossible to perform work. The square and level are required in order to create a smooth wall and surface - a curve fireplace will look extremely ugly.

Montage Karcasa

The process of mounting the portal for a decorative fireplace is divided into several steps, see the step-by-step photo of the instruction:

	1. The work begins with the montage of the frame for the portal of the fireplace. To do this, assemble the base of four profiles. As the bottom at this stage, narrow profiles are fixed, in which the transverse will later be inserted.
	2. Strengthen the vertical profiles next step. Cut their side parts for the desired length, and screw screw into a wide plane.
	3. Secure the profile for the main plating. They are fixed by analogy with the previous ones.
	4. The floor is additionally strengthened by several horizontal profiles that allow you to create a flat platform for future decorative firewood firewood.
	5. The last step is the lifting of horizontal elements and imitation of the pipe, which will hide the wires from the TV.

Facing

Facing will be made of plasterboard. Cut it exactly in size with a building knife. Make it start on any side, consistently pass 3 layers - 2 layers of cardboard and gypsum. For convenience, make a reserve at 3-4mm, which then steals with a knife.

Work begins with the foundation:

	6. After the horizontal part is attached, additionally add one vertical strip on each side - they will give a stronger base.
	7. Next, begin to sides. All sheets are screwed with screws. The length of the screws should not be too large (3 mm) - it is enough just to fix the sheet in the profile.
	8. Secure the front sheets next step. Make a curved sheet - it will serve as a ceiling for "firebox" false fireplace. To do this, make shallow cuts on one side of the sheet - it will be screwed to the ceiling.
	9. After that, we screw the last sheets and proceed to the next step.

Finish finish imitation fireplace in the apartment

To the finishing finish with their own hands of a decorative fireplace from drywall, facing the brick and consolidation of the countertop. The tabletop is attached as ordinary kitchen - on the latch. Decorating with brick is carried out with special glue and spatula. Start from the bottom level.

	10. We separate the transitions to the false fireplace of the foam stucco, which is chosen in size. It is an ordinary plinth, which is attached to the glue. The finish is lowered up, which allows you to place bricks more tight.
	11. Make the rear wall for the fireplace. For her, anyone is not too thick plywood, which will be placed brick
	12. The end of the finish will be a narrow plinth, which will create a narrow transition between the trim and the worktop.

As a final step, decorate the design of the lamps, putting them into the imitation of the furnace. The upper shelf serves to install various equipment.

How to make your own hands Fish Fireplace - Step-by-step photo Instruction from plywood with a mirror

Within the framework of the master class, we will tell how to make a false fireplace with our own hands (step-by-step instructions with the photo attached) from plywood, wooden bars and mirrors. The size of the finished design is 1100 mm in height, 220 mm in the depth and 900 mm in width.

The design is made entirely of wood, with the insertion of the mirror on the rear wall. As it will serve the wall behind the fireplace.

From materials will be required:

• plywood 2mm thick;
• bruks, 20x40mm;
• board, 40x220mm;
• wooden corners;
• metal corners;
• mirror;
• paint.

Plywood and bars are made from any tree - it is desirable that they are inhabited in advance. There is no special requirements for the board, the main thing is that its surface is smooth. The dimensions of the mirror depend on the desired characteristics, 600x400 mm will be more than enough.

From the tools will be required:

• wood hacksaw;
• screwdriver;
• drill or drill for a screwdriver;
• paint brushes.

Montage Karcasa

The frame assembly is not very laborious - all major guides must be at the edges of the alleged sheets. It is advisable before starting to make your own hands a false fireplace on our step-by-step instructions with photos, develop an exemplary drawing that will allow you to navigate in the design dimensions.

	1. Bursts are bonded with metal coal with metal coal and screws on the tree - there are enough strength for the Falche-Fire framework.
	2. Prepare horizontal shelves guides. They are attached as follows.
	3. The shape of the coal values \u200b\u200bdoes not have - any, which were used at hand. The most important is the alignment - use the level at all stages of the frame assembly. After assembling the alleged frame, place the mirror. This is done by saidding screws.

At the last stage, it is not superfluous to saw plywood. Accuracy is not so important - deviations are allowed to 2-4mm, since all the joints will be closed by corners.

Color

This stage of installation False fireplace is carried out any suitable paint. It is worth painting with a thin layer, after removing the sheets of plywood from the frame - so stain the surrounding walls will be extremely difficult.

Tip: To show the texture of the tree after the dense layer, we recommend as follows - take any rag and spend it at the same low paint. A portion of the surface layer will switch to a rag and lights the invoice. Do not take a felt or cotton fabric - it will leave a lot of villi on the surface.

After drying, all sheets attach to the frame of the portal portal False fireplace.

4. glue sheets to frame

Decoration

Decor for false fireplace is considered to be corners that will hide cosmetic plywood defects, different planks and construction decorative panels. Start work recommend from corners.

	5. The thin tree is split when scrolling with a screw, therefore, before twisting the corner, drill a hole in it with a slightly smaller diameter of the screw.
	6. After that, the screw is screwed, attaching the corner.
	7. From above to the fireplace, the plank is attached to which the corners are screwed in advance. It allows you to hide the butter of plywood sheets.
	8. For an additional decor, a construction panel was purchased in the store. It has the appearance of stucco and painted in advance. It is attached by screwing from the inside of the sheet.
	9. After that, place the rest of the decorative elements: candles, garlands or paintings. Under the bottom shelf, put the lamps.

Options for purchased decorative fireplaces

Decorative fireplaces extensively capture the market for home decor. Ready solutions have the ability to carry, and the main principle of work is the system of mirrors with lamps, sound effects.

All proposed fireplaces are divided into two functional groups:

• with heating;
• without him.

Cozy atmosphere

The first option plays the role of not only the decorative element, but also the heater - they are put in them or other heaters, which with the help of the fan system allow you to heat the room. Do not purchase cheap Chinese solutions - they are dangerous for the apartment in terms of fire safety and have a greater load on the power supply. Consider this, because, often heat from it becomes invisible against the background of the electricity spent.

The second option is completely decorative and does not bear any benefit, except for the decorative effect for the room. In such fireplaces, various fire imitation systems are used: from ordinary lamps and multi-colored flaps, up to full screens, it all depends on the budget and fancy of the manufacturer.

False fireplaces in the living room interior - photo for another 12 ideas

With a mirror

Decorative firewood firewood

In white tone

Falsh Fireplace in Provence Interior

Country style

Modern classic

Decorative plasterboard

With candles

In the dining room

In a light room

Wood

Next to the plants

It is believed that, together with a homely focus, warm, comfort and comfort comes to the house. In a private house, build a stove or fireplace for yourself, but what to make the inhabitants of megacities that live in the apartments of multi-storey houses, where there is no possibility to build such construction. The output found designers, offering to make a decorative fireplace, which looks like a real, but does not have a proper functional.

Simple and banal imitation of the fireplace in the apartment allows you to transform the entire interior, create a suitable atmosphere of home comfort. At the same time, there are a lot of building options for such structures, and the choice of materials is just huge. In this article, we will tell about how to make a decorative fireplace with their own hands, consider the most popular types of materials from which such things are created, you will be given a step-by-step instruction that helps to quickly build a beautiful and exclusive construction yourself.

Full imitation of the real fiery system

Total moments

As we have already said, in the urban apartment, a real oven or a fireplace is impossible. Permission to build such structures should be requested from regulatory organizations, and they will definitely give a refusal, motivating it with the absence of the necessary chimneys in the house and weak floors. Therefore, urban residents should look at the fake fireplaces, a decorative accessory that perform an exceptionally aesthetic function.

Qualitatively made imitation of the fireplace with their own hands in the apartment will take a worthy central place. It will become the main emphasis in the room, its main attraction. At the same time, there is no particular difficulty in building such a miracle, you can easily make a false fireplace with your own hands, even if you do not have construction skills.

If you want some functional, not only contemplation, then it is permissible to the portal of our imitation or biocamine. These two modern devices are good in their own way:

• electrocamine recreates the function of heating;
• biocamine makes it possible to admire the right fire.

Elementary Wooden Candle Portal

Construction of a false fireplace with imitation of a flame occupation is very fascinating and interesting, starting with the development of a sketch of the future building and ending with the decoration of the finished product. If you approach the issue of creating a similar decorative element, it is observed, it is not difficult to notice that the advantages of such a building are very much, for example:

• Of course, the budget for the construction of a false fireplace is assumed, but even if you use the most expensive finishing materials it will be affordable and small. If you want to build a false fireplace from cardboard, then the cost of such a structure will be the most minimal. In any case, placing the false analogue of the fireplace in the apartment will be inexpensive.
• To make a false fireplace with their own hands, building materials will be required. All of them can be easily found in any construction store, and many already have at home. The cost of materials is just as well available.
• The construction of such structures requires a creative approach, especially at the decoration stage, and here you have complete freedom. If you didn't like the end result, you can always change the appearance of the facility. This approach makes your building a universal suitable for a different interior.
• To decorate a fake fireplace, it is often not necessary for expensive and exclusive materials, most often enough programs. Some options do not imply decorating in a simple understanding of this word.
• The resulting design meets all the standards of fire safety, especially if you use exclusively imitation of fire, artificial firewood.

Large gypsum portal for fireplace

Waking up to build a false fireplace with your own hands, it is desirable to clearly imagine how it will look like it will fit into the interior. Conditionally, it is possible to divide such structures into three groups:

• 1. Among the imitating real fireplaces, buildings are allocated by those that fully comply with their species with real analogues. Much did not differ from the real fireplace made according to this principle, because the same dimensions, similar materials are used, classical decoration is carried out, and a real fire is also lit in the furnace. Make a false fireplace of a brick of a similar type is quite laborious and not suiced, but if you need to recreate a full fireplace, then this is the perfect option.
  2. Another type of decorative fireplaces implies the creation or purchase of a bulky portal. The fireplace is decending such a plan imitates the appearance of the present counterpart, however, it is often decorated to taste the owners. Decorative firewood, candles, beautiful accessories, in rare cases of fire are placed in the furnace of such a design.
  3. The last species remotely resembles a real fireplace, but according to the overall idea it means that this structure is. This is an alternative way to bring home the hearth, for example, drawing it on canvas and securing on the wall, or putting a box with candles in the corner.

Harmoniously inscribed by the fireplace in the interior of the room

Depending on which option from the above you chose, construction may differ slightly. For example, to make a decorative fireplace in the natural size with your own bricks, you will have to master the masonry, and it is enough to have a fantasy and a sharp knife to create a cardboard model.