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Bold, bespoke, beautiful: warm your home and soul with contemporary fireplace designs

Until relatively recently, fireplaces were similar in function and aesthetics.

Clare Chapman
Last updated: 1 February 2024 | 7 min read
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Modern fireplaces offer bold, bespoke designs to warm your home. Suspended Fires create a sculptural statement, hanging from the ceiling to save floor space, while Double-Sided Fires act as elegant partitions in open-plan areas.

Contemporary Freestanding Fires have evolved with slim, vertical designs and custom colour options. Meanwhile, modern Built-In Fireplaces integrate seamlessly into walls or cabinetry, offering a sleek, panoramic view of the flames with high efficiency and minimal clearance requirements.

Suspended Fires

Double-Sided Fires

This application of a double-sided fireplace shares light and warmth to different areas of a Versatile family home by Rogan Nash Architects.

Freestanding Fires

This highly efficient, clean-burning Ethos Phoenix freestanding fire, one of the only wood burners available in New Zealand suitable for airtight construction, is the singular heat source in a cleaver little home by Chaney & Norman Architects in Luggate

Built-In Fireplaces

A minimilist fireplace design adds effortless ambience to this modern Mt Maunganui home by Studio2 Architects

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Clare Chapman Clare Chapman
Editor in Chief, HOME