Fires bring us together for a cuddle. Get up close and personal with soft textures and visually warming sources of heat.
It’s been a lingering shift from autumn into impending winter.
Embrace the change in the seasons and welcome the return of visual warmth with these living room ideas.
Make a statement
Rocal’s ronde central is beautifully self-explanatory.
Its circular shape, shown in lead shot, is a very pure way to break up a big open space.
Its simple shape allows for a complete view of the fire from any point in the room.
It’s the kind of screen you want to gather around with family and friends on winter afternoons, and it costs from €5,295.00 from Fenton Fires.
Warm and earthy
Fans of colour are likely frustrated by the limited colour palette of many stove brands.
Arada's new earth collection features fashionable shades in terracotta, pebble, pine, graphite, straw, and clay, pictured.
The Holborn costs €1,950 to order from Kikenny city-based House of Stoves.
Monochromatic monolith
Barry’s Fires, trading as Balrath Designs, supplies this Odin design with a two-metre plateau or shelf by Dik Guerts.
Its bull's-eye picture window means you can enjoy the flames, and the infrared glass ensures extra-high efficiency.
It costs €7,500, inclusive of Vat and installation.
A fire for a home with no flue
Many homes no longer have an open flue.
This bioethanol-operated Le Feu at CA Design is a contemporary-shaped fire that can stand on either tripod or pedestal legs or hang suspended from the ceiling and uses bioethanol to fuel it.
The nickel dome with steel bowl and burner, pictured, costs €2,115.
Colour Injection
Co. Meath-based First Class Fireplaces can supply this cute little flueless, bioethanol stove with legs that you can move around the house – when it is not lit.
It has a slim profile and comes in eye-catching colours, including this pea green.
It costs about €1,449.
Back to black
This Parkray model looks really good set into a chimney breast whose interior has been coated in a dark colour.
Here, the sides are painted black, and the back of the breast is the same colour as the wall and cabinetry.
It helps obscure the lines of the dark stove, and it appears to float. Use a heat-resistant paint for these areas.
The Aspect 5 multifuel stove has an eco design and costs about €1,725, ex fitting and fixtures from Cookstown, Co Tyrone-based Hunters Stoves.
Make any room look lit
Experts at surviving the long winter nights, the Scandinavians have long celebrated the beauty of candlelight.
Enjoy the flickering of flames, even without an open fire, with some of these silver reeded glass hurricane lanterns by Paul Costelloe Living, dropping shortly at Dunnes Stores.
They come in two sizes: medium, €80 and large, €100.
Cosy up in a fireside chair
Fans of a real fire will love this sheepskin-upholstered Amias chair.
It brings visual and literal warmth to a reading nook, a bedroom or by the fire. Its slender pale wood legs contrast with the shaggy silhouette of the seat.
It costs €1,398 and there are just limited quantities left at Meadows & Byrne.
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