Cozy season has arrived, but is your fireplace ready? The materials used for mantels haven't changed drastically over the years—brick, stone, wood, and tile, are still classics—but the style you ...

Q: My fireplace has me in a quandary. I'm putting in crown molding and painting. My fireplace is used brick, 8 feet by 5 feet 5 inches deep with a hearth 50 inches wide and 4 inches high. I don't know ...

When Homestyle reader Liz Cezat from Canton described a fireplace she wanted to update, her thoughts were to strip the brick and change it to a long horizontal contemporary fireplace/hearth or retain ...