Inglenook

This morning, I woke up to the charming banging and burbling of my radiator coming back to life. Cold weather is here! Or, as I like to think about it, inglenook season. This is not because anyone I know actually has an inglenook, or I have ever experienced one in real life. Inglenooks, like unicorns, are a beautiful thing that I have only ever seen in pictures and in my dreams. But that’s no reason to limit myself from sharing these photos with you.

The inglenook fireplace designs featured here showcase a vast array of looks ranging from rustic to rad. Finely crafted from a variety of materials in numerous styles, they are enormously appealing!

An inglenook (Modern Scots ingleneuk), or chimney corner, is a small recess that adjoins a fireplace. Inglenooks originated as a partially enclosed hearth area, appended to a larger room. The hearth was used for cooking and its enclosing alcove became a natural place for people seeking warmth to gather. With changes in building design kitchens became separate rooms, while inglenooks were retained in the living space as intimate warming places, subsidiary spaces within larger rooms. (1) (1)…

Recently sold: $820,000. Striking & meticulously updated home in sought after North of Forbes location. The backyard boasts an expansive private oasis in the heart of squirrel hill! Grand entry opens to a magnificent foyer complete with intricate woodwork, stained glass and fabulous natural lighting that is continued throughout. Original wood paneled pocket doors lead to the elegant dining room encircled in picture frame wainscoting. The eat in kitchen is equipped with top of the line…

The heavily beamed 16th century drawing room is home to a huge inglenook, complete with bread oven, that extends two thirds of the length of the room

English country meets American Arts and Crafts.

If you've fallen under the spell of UK phenom Edmund de Waal (as we have), you might find yourself obsessively rearranging your pottery in an attempt to re

A new addition at the rear of the modest Prairie house provides space for a serious kitchen, a bath and pantry—and a period-style fireplace inglenook.

2511 Lincoln Ave, Alameda, CA 94501 is currently not for sale. The 2,622 Square Feet single family home is a 4 beds, 1.5 baths property. This home was built in 1910 and last sold on 2014-09-04 for $961,000. View more property details, sales history, and Zestimate data on Zillow.