Add Style and Function to Your Home with Fireplace Built-Ins
Store Books, Movies, Artwork or Ephemera in These Fireside Storage Areas
If you have a fireplace and need a little extra storage, you might want to consider having a few built-ins designed on either side of the box. Typically, a fireplace and flue protrude into the room, creating alcoves on either side. These little spaces just happen to be ideal for housing bookcases, shelves, media cabinets — you name it. Let's see how some Houzz designers transformed these fireplace areas into beautiful and functional spaces to house some extra storage.
Low built-in cabinets partially fill the alcoves in this modern space, leaving plenty of room above for showcasing art.
Bi-fold doors hide the TV, then open and slide into the media cabinet when it's time for viewing.
Floor-to-ceiling wood panels with simple shelves and cabinets suit this mid-century modern living room.
This one looks like one single unit. The arched niche housing the TV is an unexpected and pleasant touch.
The simple addition of a white mantel here helps to tie the two cabinets together.
These light wood built-ins define the family room. If you look closely, there is a kitchen to the left.
There are niches for art work and tv as well as plenty of built-in storage.
In this one, the fireplace protrudes past the cabinets...
... Whereas here, the cabinets extend past the fireplace.
The fireplace is a strong vertical feature in gray stacked stone, and paired with the dark floating cabinets, grounds the wall. Floating shelves and transom windows add lightness.
The doors of these cabinets seem to disappear into the warm wood-paneled wall.
These clever drawers start under the fireplace and extend to one side, creating a low bench. On the other side, there's room for a cozy reading nook.
Natural light floods this white room. The built-ins blend right in, making you notice the artfully arranged flowers, books and accessories instead.
Are you considering built-ins for your fireplace?
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Are you considering built-ins for your fireplace?
More ideas for the fireplace