Walk-in fireplace

A walk-in fireplace. The opening is over two meters wide and tall enough for a person to stand inside, with a single stone lintel above, and a directly plastered hood above that; the hearth is brick-built, with a wrought-iron grate and a horizontal bar for hanging pots inside. Avoid: shrinking the fireplace into a decorative opening, adding marble mantelpieces and moldings, using modern metal fireplaces, making the interior of the fireplace clean with no signs of use.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座可以走進去的壁爐。開口寬超過兩公尺、高到人可以站進去,上方是一根整塊的石過樑,再上面是一片直接抹平的煙罩;爐床是磚砌的,裡面有鍛鐵的爐架與掛鍋的橫桿。避免:把壁爐縮小成裝飾性的開口、加入大理石的壁爐架與線腳、使用金屬的現代壁爐、讓爐內乾淨沒有使用的痕跡。