Best selling fireplace – W/E 17/05/09
Bedford Jubilee
Last weeks best seller was the Bedford jubilee fireplace. Shown with solid oak mantel at 54 inches wide, available at 48 inches wide if your room is a little smaller. Our customers chose the solid fuel type over the gas option. This fireplace is also available with a electric fire. If you need to go smaller the regal or Coronet is available, with a range of mantels at 42 inches wide, this should suite most chimney widths.
Another choice is the Crown cast iron insert which is available up to 40 inches square ideal if you want to put it with a larger old mantel with a large inside opening.
Fireplace Surrounds… What’s, what?
Fires and Fireplaces have always played an integral part in every home, but over the years fires and fireplaces have evolved from simple fires in the middle of a home where the smoke would have been vented out through the roof lantern to what we have today which normally serves as an element to enhance the grandeur of an interior space.
It wasn’t until the twelfth century when the placement of fireplaces moved from the middle of the room to the wall which allowed for the design of very elaborate, rich, architectural focal points for a room.
Fireplace surrounds also known as mantels, mantelpieces or chimneypieces, originated in medieval times but were then simply a hood that protruded over the grate to catch smoke. The fireplace surrounds used today are part of an overall finish and provide more of a decorative feature.
Fireplace surrounds are made of the following elements:
- Shelf
- Frieze
- Legs or Jambs
- Foot
- Corbels
- Corbels are not always found on fireplace surrounds.
Mantels by Knapp Woodworking
All our solid wood mantels are made by Knapp woodworking in solid Oak and Pine. These mantels are made in Lincoln from the highest quality timber and sourced from renewable forests. they are recognisable from a badge of quality which is displayed on the back of every mantel. when asking for a mantel make sure you ask for a mantle by name, Knapp woodworking mantels the name you can trust for quality.
These mantels are supplied to the gallery group and feature in the gallery range of brochures, Knapp woodworking is the originator of the Bedford mantel, Lincoln mantel and Worchester (Darwin) mantel. These mantels first appeared in the gallery brochure nearly ten years ago.
Knapp woodworking’s current brochure can be found here.