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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A feature fireplace can add up to 5 per cent to a home’s value. And at this time of year, the warm glow and crackle of logs burning in the hearth seem very appealing indeed.