Sentence examples for fireplace wall from inspiring English sources

Period details include raised paneling in the front parlor's fireplace wall, wainscoting and a built-in hutch in the dining room.

Indoors: The ground floor centers on a tiled great room with a wide brick fireplace wall surrounded by living, media and dining areas.

penthouse condo in a 24- year-old building; concierge, renovated kitchen, fireplace, wall of windows in living room; common charge $495; taxes $2,259; listed at $359,000.

The fireplace wall has no massive stone chimney that projects into the space; instead the fireplace is recessed into the wall and concealed behind a sleek, low slung, 12-foot-long-by-18-inches-high piece of blackened glass.

The foyer makes a great first impression with its stone wall, flower-topped fireplace, wall of wine bottles, center-stage circular red leather banquette, wooden stairway to an upstairs dining room and gigantic yet simple chandelier.

Unlike most great room sitting areas, this one has two focal points, a fireplace wall and a window wall with a view out the back through three eight- or 10-foot-high French doors or an optional eight-foot-high-by-15-foot-long array of "disappearing" sliding glass doors.

"I'll be ruined," said Arthur Seder, 56, who two years ago spent $150,000 on a mint-green split-level house barge with central air conditioning, baseboard heating, a wood-burning fireplace, wall-to-wall shag carpeting and circular staircase.

$900,000 to $1.2 million Chappaqua $1.178 million200 Sunset Drive North Number of bedrooms: 4 Number of full bathrooms: 4 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Time on the market: 9 weeks 49-year-old colonial; entry hall, screened porch, master bedroom with fireplace, wall-to-wall carpeting, 1.11-acre lot; taxes $20,291; listed at $1.199 million.

But it is also innovative, with a corbeled chimney and storage closets in the fireplace walls.

She also made effective use of contrasting textures, as in the juxtaposition of Utah granite fireplace walls with antique chestnut floors made from the beams of a 150-year-old Hudson Valley barn.

Fireplace walls can be a bit of a challenge to decorate.