Elegant Dark Wood Fireplace with Granite Surround. This living room features a striking wood-burning fireplace with a sleek black granite surround and firebox. The dark wood mantel complements the ...

These stylish fireplace ideas—from heritage marble to natural stone surrounds—will make you curl up fireside beyond the holiday season ...

Changing the surround rather than the mantel can also give your fireplace a new personality. When Amanda Jesse and Whitney Parris-Lamb, the founders of the Brooklyn-based interior design firm ...

Section R1001.11, which concerns fireplace clearances, says noncombustible material, such as the marble surround you want, needs to extend at least six inches beyond the fireplace opening on both ...