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Product Description:
Feast your eyes on some of the hottest fireplace designs and hearth products available today. This book is a must for people who already own a fireplace and seek design inspiration, people who want to retrofit an existing fireplace, and people who are installing a new fireplace in their home. An inspiring guide to today's vast assortment of hearth products, it features over 225 gorgeous color photographs of dressed-up fireplaces and stoves, and helpful tips to help you design a fireplace environment. These wonderful gas and woodburning fireplaces are attractively adorned to spark your imagination. Whether your style is classic, traditional, or contemporary, you'll be sure to find designs that suit you. This is an invaluable resource that no current or future fireplace owner or designer should be without.

Rating : - Not recommended
This book was a huge disappointment.

Although purporting to contain a wide variety of ideas and styles, the pictures in this book were either relatively bland things from fireplace manufacturers, or relatively stuffy items from a small number of ultra-high-end designers who design homes that must be in the $10,000,000 range and whose idea of design is to mimic things from European manors. Pick up a couple of fireplace brochures and a copy of Architectural Digest and you have this book.

This was the first book of design ideas I have ever bought where I didn't see even ONE idea that I liked.

I buy a lot of books from Amazon, but (no fault of theirs) I'll have to think very long and hard before I buy another design idea book without being able to peruse the book first.