Cozy season has arrived, but is your fireplace ready? The materials used for mantels haven't changed drastically over the years—brick, stone, wood, and tile, are still classics—but the style you ...

The fireplace is often the most commanding element in any room it’s in. Size and abundance of material are often factors, but as renovation specialist Ron Parko points out, our eyes are naturally ...

I have a large painted brick fireplace that we want to resurface with real river rock or something similar. My husband and I are not interested in veneer or ledge panels. Will the mortar be strong ...

A reader who’s in the midst of a project to convert two of the fireplaces in his Clinton Hill brownstone to wood-burning and reline three of his flues sends in a mid-project report. So far ...

I gave my living room an extreme fireplace makeover with this DIY Fireplace Renovation. I removed my old mantle and fireplace surround, replacing them with a steel plate wrapped fireplace featuring ...

When we last checked in with the fireplace renovation in a brownstone in Clinton Hill, things seemed to be going well but the jury was still out on how successful the efforts to restore two fireplaces ...