Fireplace: Just an Arched Opening

A simplified fireplace. It is a semicircular arched or rounded rectangular recessed opening in the wall, directly surrounded by cream-colored plaster, with no mantelpiece, no stone cladding, no moldings; the inside of the opening is also rounded. A ceramic pot or a few dried branches might be placed on the floor in front. Its function is to give the wall a focal point, not necessarily to actually light a fire. Avoid: adding classical mantelpieces and hearths, cladding the opening with stone and tiles, using decorative fireplaces with electronic simulated flames, making the opening a square rectangle.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座被簡化的壁爐。它是牆上一個半圓拱形或圓角矩形的內凹開口,四周直接就是奶油色的塗料,沒有壁爐架、沒有石材貼面、沒有任何線腳;開口的內側同樣抹圓。前方地上可能放著一個陶罐或幾根乾燥的枝條。它的功能是給牆一個焦點,不一定真的生火。避免:加上古典的壁爐架與台面、在開口周圍貼石材與磁磚、使用電子仿真火焰的裝飾壁爐、讓開口做成方正的矩形。