Fireplaces: Stone-built and capped

A main indoor fireplace. The firebox opening is a pointed or flattened arch, flanked by short columns. Above is a stone hood that slopes outwards, with a carved frieze and coat of arms on its surface. In front of the fireplace are cast iron log holders and a tiled hearth. The entire fireplace is over two meters tall. Avoid: making it a classical square fireplace with a mirror, hiding the hood inside the wall, using delicate wooden and marble moldings, reducing the fireplace scale to common residential proportions.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座室內的主壁爐。爐口是尖拱或扁拱,兩側是短柱,上方是一片往外斜出的石造煙罩,罩面有雕花帶與紋章。爐前有鑄鐵的柴架與地磚鋪面。整座壁爐的高度超過兩公尺。避免:做成古典的方形壁爐配鏡子、把煙罩藏進牆裡、使用木作與大理石的細緻線腳、讓壁爐的尺度縮小到住宅常見比例。