Contemporary fireplaces are available in various forms, stylish and sleek by design and genarally ’space saving’ makes them ideally suited to modern apartments and homes. Some of the most popular types of contemporary fireplace are known as Hole in the wall fires.
The remote control gas LBR 26'' Fire
Akal remote control gas fire bowl - Chrome (shown in Contemporary Agean Limestone Low suite)
If you are looking for something even more innovative and slightly more daring than the popular Hole in the wall fire, then the Fire Bowl is for you. The Capital Contemporary Fire Bowls were designed by the award winning sculptor Lilly Swan and are named after her love of Yoga the Boji, Akal and Oracle. In the new year the Akal Bowl will be aired on a Channel five programme (called Cowboy Builders) and was chosen by a team of designers and, ex Loose Woman presenter and Emmerdale actress Sheree Murphy.
Woodburning stoves are hugely popular throughout the UK perhaps because they are eco friendly, but also because they are clean and can generate a huge amount of heat that is distributed evenly throughout the room.
The Capital Sirius range offers 3 excellent options (essentially small, medium and large versions) the Sirius 405 stove, Sirius 545 stove and the Sirius 645 stove.
The Sirius 645 stove is the largest in our stoves family.
It has twin glazed doors and a burning area that can take logs up to 20’’ long and it can output upto 12kW of controlled heat (that’s a lot of heat)!
Sirius 405 Stove
Sirius 545 Stove
Sirius 645 Stove
There is no doubt that a cast iron fireplace is a striking thing. Once manufactured in extremely large sizes for the likes of stately properties they are now available in modest sizes and the cast iron arch can look fab in a bedroom, kitchen or dining room.
Wood burning is the current popular burning method and the Capital Wandsworth cast iron arches are fitted with deep burning backs which enables you to burn more logs for longer than most standard sizes available. Although, if wood & coal burning is not your thing, then Capital can provide a gas or electric alternative.
Wandsworth Black - cast iron fireplace
Ever thought that when you’re buying a stone fireplace, you’re also buying a valuable natural antique for your home?
To me the beauty of natural stone lies within the history that forms it. Each piece of natural stone is unique to another, therefore each stone fireplace is also unique.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock primarily made of the mineral calcite CaCO3 (here comes the science bit) which originates from the floor bed of tropical seas and turns into stone by the accumulation of the constituents grains of calcite and marine sealife.
Most limestone is formed with the help of living organisms, when organisms die their shells and bones settle to the seafloor. Over millions of years, these sediments of shells, sand and mud harden into limestone – your fireplace is made up of fossils and millions of years old!
If you choose to buy a limestone fireplace you do need to be realistic about colour and consistency. The legs and mantel shelf of your Capital Fireplaces’ stone fireplace are colour matched as close as possible and at point of production any legs and mantel shelves with large fossils (i.e 10 pence size or larger) are generally rejected, but tiny fossils will be inevitable – to me that is the beauty of natural stone, and a naturally beautiful limestone fireplace!
Regent Agean Limestone fireplace
