They turned the faux fireplace into a working one.
He did, however, build a marble fireplace into the wall opposite the dining area.
They turned the original lengthy living room, with its soaring copper fireplace, into the dining room so they could entertain a large number of guests.
Mrs. Teutsch was attracted to the idea because her grandfather had built a small, somewhat primitive fireplace into a large boulder on the property decades ago.
Nevertheless, there are a number of ways to convert a drafty old fireplace into a fairly efficient source of heat for the home.
Next came the smoke chamber, which, Mr. Glider explained, is the "upside-down ice cream cone" that funnels smoke from the fireplace into the flue.
Microsoft and Apple built much of their homesteads from the ground up; Google, like the Greenwich Village resident who turns a nonworking fireplace into an ingenious wine rack, made do with the space as it came.
After Mr. Ochs met with her representatives, who liked his ideas, the team hired Jay Haverson, an architect, to transform the Chemists' Club ballroom, a masculine room with bronzed capitals, mahogany wainscoting and a huge fireplace, into a reflection of Ms. Spears.
"All a perp has to do is scoop the leftovers from a fireplace into little containers and slap on a label that says 'Genuine Russian Meteor Particles.' It makes astronomers crazy to hear that people still fall for this.
And outdoor fireplaces, incorporated into courtyards, were an important element in the Spanish colonial revival buildings that became popular in Southern California in the 1920's.
