Making a Fireplace By: Henry H. Saylor (1880-)
First Page: MAKING A FIREPLACE By HENRY H. SAYLOR AUTHOR OF BUNGALOWS, MAKING A ROSE GARDEN, ETC. [Illustration] NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1913 Copyright, 1913, by MCBRIDE, NAST & CO. Published, January, 1913 [Illustration: The fireplace of long ago, made large enough to accommodate most of the kitchen’s pots and pans beside the fire] CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 CONSTRUCTION 7 MISCELLANEOUS ODD FORMS 22 FACINGS AND MANTELS 25 MENDING POOR FIREPLACES 31 FIREPLACE ACCESSORIES 36 BUILDING THE FIRE 45 THE ILLUSTRATIONS THE FIREPLACE OF LONG AGO Frontispiece FACING PAGE AN ENGLISH BASKET GRATE IN BRASS 4 A MODERN ENGLISH FIRE CORNER IN CONTRASTING TILES 4 AN INGLENOOK WITH STONE HEARTH 22 CAEN STONE MANTEL FOR THE FORMAL TYPE 26 AN INFORMAL FIREPLACE IN FIELD STONE 30 THE MODERN COLONIAL TYPE WITH BRICK FACING AND WHITE WOOD MANTEL 38 A CRAFTSMAN TYPE IN BRICK WITH COPPER HOOD 46 A RECESSED FIREPLACE IN BRICK AND ROUGH PLASTER 50 INTRODUCTION In a book of this kind there is no particular need for dwelling at length on the desirability of having a fireplace. That will be taken for granted. It is enough to say that in these days a home can scarcely be considered worthy of the name if it does not contain at least one hearth. There is some inexplicable quality in a wood fire that exerts almost a hypnotic influence upon those who eagerly gather about it. The smoldering glow of the logs induces a calm and introspective mood that banishes all the trivialities and distractions of the day’s work and gives one an opportunity to replenish his store of energy for the coming day. The open fire, unlike most of the comforts that we demand in a modern home, has been associated with the race as far back almost as the home itself. At first, of course, it was as a necessity and the development from that to a luxury has been an exceedingly slow one extending over the years down to the present time. There are two forms of the open fire—a possible third one, the gas log, being a subject on which the less said the better. We have, therefore, a choice between the open fireplace designed for wood and the basket grate in which to burn coal, preferably cannel coal. This latter fuel is not nearly so well known in this country as in England where the scarcity of wood necessarily makes coal the more commonly used fuel. With our own abundance of wood, however, there will perhaps be little hesitancy in choosing the open fireplace rather than the basket grate for coal, although in certain cases, for example an apartment where the flue has been built too small, or in a house where an available chimney offers only a small flue area for fireplace use, the basket grate will prove a welcome solution of the problem. Of course there is no excuse whatever for building a modern home with a chimney too small for the sort of fireplace you want, but where the chimney has already been built without this provision it may possibly be found that a small terra cotta flue lining may be inserted in the larger flue without seriously damaging the latter’s power of draft... Continue reading book >>

Making a Fireplace By: Henry H. Saylor (1880-)

First Page:

MAKING A FIREPLACE

By HENRY H. SAYLOR

AUTHOR OF BUNGALOWS, MAKING A ROSE GARDEN, ETC.

[Illustration]

NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1913

Published, January, 1913

[Illustration: The fireplace of long ago, made large enough to accommodate most of the kitchen’s pots and pans beside the fire]

CONTENTS

PAGE INTRODUCTION 1

CONSTRUCTION 7

MISCELLANEOUS ODD FORMS 22

FACINGS AND MANTELS 25

MENDING POOR FIREPLACES 31

FIREPLACE ACCESSORIES 36

BUILDING THE FIRE 45

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

THE FIREPLACE OF LONG AGO Frontispiece

FACING PAGE AN ENGLISH BASKET GRATE IN BRASS 4

A MODERN ENGLISH FIRE CORNER IN CONTRASTING TILES 4

AN INGLENOOK WITH STONE HEARTH 22

CAEN STONE MANTEL FOR THE FORMAL TYPE 26

AN INFORMAL FIREPLACE IN FIELD STONE 30

THE MODERN COLONIAL TYPE WITH BRICK FACING AND WHITE WOOD MANTEL 38

A CRAFTSMAN TYPE IN BRICK WITH COPPER HOOD 46

A RECESSED FIREPLACE IN BRICK AND ROUGH PLASTER 50

INTRODUCTION

In a book of this kind there is no particular need for dwelling at length on the desirability of having a fireplace. That will be taken for granted. It is enough to say that in these days a home can scarcely be considered worthy of the name if it does not contain at least one hearth. There is some inexplicable quality in a wood fire that exerts almost a hypnotic influence upon those who eagerly gather about it. The smoldering glow of the logs induces a calm and introspective mood that banishes all the trivialities and distractions of the day’s work and gives one an opportunity to replenish his store of energy for the coming day.

The open fire, unlike most of the comforts that we demand in a modern home, has been associated with the race as far back almost as the home itself. At first, of course, it was as a necessity and the development from that to a luxury has been an exceedingly slow one extending over the years down to the present time.

There are two forms of the open fire—a possible third one, the gas log, being a subject on which the less said the better. We have, therefore, a choice between the open fireplace designed for wood and the basket grate in which to burn coal, preferably cannel coal. This latter fuel is not nearly so well known in this country as in England where the scarcity of wood necessarily makes coal the more commonly used fuel. With our own abundance of wood, however, there will perhaps be little hesitancy in choosing the open fireplace rather than the basket grate for coal, although in certain cases, for example an apartment where the flue has been built too small, or in a house where an available chimney offers only a small flue area for fireplace use, the basket grate will prove a welcome solution of the problem. Of course there is no excuse whatever for building a modern home with a chimney too small for the sort of fireplace you want, but where the chimney has already been built without this provision it may possibly be found that a small terra cotta flue lining may be inserted in the larger flue without seriously damaging the latter’s power of draft... Continue reading book >>

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