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Channel Panel Valance

Choose Fireplace Screens

In today's homes a fireplace is the most favorite spot around which families celebrate holidays and special events of the family while warding off the chill of cold wintry nights. Such activity around the fireplace as a focal point warrants making a fireplace a safe place. Fireplace screens are an integral part of a fireplace and ensure that your home remains safe. Fireplace screens protect children, pets, and the surrounding floors from fire and the snapping embers. A fireplace screen should always be in place when a fire is lit, irrespective of whether it is an open fire or a built in fireplace. Fireplace screens help prevent accidents. These fireplace screens keep the direct heat, the toxic emissions and smoke seeping into the living area. Fireplace screens protect the family members moving in close proximity. Fireplace screens act as barriers between the intense heat of the fire and anyone around it.

Choosing Fireplace Screens :

Fireplace screens come in a wide variety of styles and price ranges.

* The traditional fireplace screen consists of a black, three-paneled iron frame hinged for free movement.
* The traditional fireplace screens are filled with a fine black steel mesh screen and are extremely ornate with intricate dense tendrils.
* If firewood is to be added, one of the side panels can be folded to allow access.
* Some fireplace screens are designed as single panels that fit the fireplace opening.
* Fireplace screens can be inexpensively custom fit and hang from a valance for fireplaces with unusual dimensions.
* The flat fireplace screen consists of a solid, unbendable structure which can be placed in front of a fireplace.

Both flat and folding fireplace screens come in a variety of styles to compliment the décor of a home - the Antique, Traditional, Contemporary, and Country type. They may be built from steel, brass, wrought iron, copper, glass, stained glass and polished iron. Fireplace screens can be practical and plain. Elaborately crafted fireplace screens may serve as exquisite pieces of art but are not really practical for containing a fire.

Size of the fireplace screen: The fireplace screen should be at least twelve inches away from the heat source. Generally the fireplace screen should stand a minimum of five inches taller than the fireplace and one foot broader on either side.

Stability of the fireplace screen: Freestanding 3, 4 or 5 fold fireplace screens can be very artistic and give your home a look that can escort your friends and relatives into the classic periods. A glass fireplace screen completely blocks the fireplace and channels toxic gases and smoke to the chimney. A fireplace screen also keeps the outside particles at bay from entering the fireplace to keep the fire burning steadily without causing any surprises. Fireplace screens are prone to getting unforeseen knocks from the children and the pets and the fireplace screen should be able to bounce back to remain upright. A fireplace screen should be fastened to the fireplace surround to prevent accidents.

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