Gothic Glass Doors for Rock Fireplace - Project #11390

Customer Comments: Hello, I reviewed your gallery on your website and am very interested to see what designs you come up with for our rather unique fireplace. I've attached images (one with measurements) of our stone fireplace opening so you can imagine a few different kinds of custom doors for us. Our entire house is Gothic in design. It has dark hardwood and stone flooring, lots of thick dark hardwood molding, and is furnished with period European antiques. It's basically looks like a European castle. Desirements: Designs that use iron, especially rustic iron, would look good here. Think: castle door hardware. However, we'd still like some glass so we can see the fire. Our house includes many pointed Gothic arches, so if those could be worked in as the windows, either as a single arches or as a three point arch, that would be excellent. I look very forward to seeing your ideas.

Our Comments: There are basically 2 ways to approach this. We can have doors made from laser cut steel with some sort of pattern cut into the doors. These will be far less expensive but will not have any relief or dimension to the pattern, just flat steel (see Option #1). We can also have doors made by a skilled blacksmith with layered materials to create a 3 dimensional pattern as you see in Option #2. There is a huge diffence in price between the two, the latter being quite expensive. We will discuss this further before we come up with any other door patterns.

Fireplace Opening: 45 1/4" W x 27 1/2" H (see diagram below)

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Medium Range Steel Doors

Steel doors are more substantial than the less expensive aluminum doors. They are heavy duty and rugged and are more customizable because the frames are laser cut.

Legend

Option #1: Hearth Creations Steel with Custom Gothic Window Pane Design and Hammered Texture with Clear Glass and Gate Mesh Backup Doors. The closeup at the bottom right is just to show the hammered texture. Slots are required on the sides to allow airflow into the fireplace.

High End Hand Crafted Wrought Iron/Steel Doors

Hand crafted from heavy wrought iron by a skilled blacksmith. These doors take on a more rugged natural look for those who appreciate craftsmanship tasteful details.

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Option #2: Stone Manufacturing WI-DF1G Hand Forged Wrought Iron Fireplace Door with Gothic Diamond Star Scroll-work in Flat Black with Clear Glass and Gate Mesh Backup Doors. Shown with Slots on the sides with Diamond Star accents to allow airflow into the fireplace.

Free Standing Gothic Screens

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Option #3: Stone Manufacturing WI-3P30M Custom Wrought Iron Gothic Arch 3 Fold Screen

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Option #4: Stone Manufacturing WI-1P30M Custom Wrought Iron Gothic Arch Single Panel Screen

Custom Gothic Scroll-work Examples

Here are examples of some custom gothic scroll-work done by Stone Mfg that can be incorporated into the design.

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Example #1: Custom Gothic Scroll-work (this is the door used in Option #2 above)

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Example #2: Custom Gothic Scroll-work

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Example #3: Custom Gothic Scroll-work

Other Pictures

Fig #1 - Closeup

Fig #2 - Room Setting

Fig #3 - Room Setting