These three fireplaces have been created by Rehab Revival Custom Carpentry of Philadelphia. Rehab Revival focuses in the classic styles of carpentry. These three different styles all represent changes in American carpentry.
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This fireplace has been built in the Arts and Crafts/Craftsman Style. It is a gas insert that had originally come with a pre-built mantle kit. The old surround has been completely gutted and a new frame has been trimmed out in the boxey turn of the century style. Around the surround and on the floor as the hearth are 4x4 slate tiles to complement the glossy white trimwork. It is built as part of a major basement remodel and it matches a built in television cabinet and a newel post and staircase.
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This fireplace is in what I call the Victorian/Edwardian transitional style. The arched firebox was an insert ordered through Lowes. After framing and setting the arched gas insert the surface was covered in subway tiles that enhance the arched firebox. The slate mantle was saved from an 1890's era South Philly rowhome that I rehabbed a few summers back. The frieze of this fireplace is all thats left of a Victorian entryway to one of the remaining mansions on Broad Street also in South Philly. The old header is all thats left of and seperated the transom from the door. Now its been repurposed and stands on two legs of fluting made out of Pine.
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This fireplace has been built in the Colonial Philadelphia Federal Style. It has a very distinct Old Philadelphia charm and style to it. This style would most definately be considered an inspiration of the greek revival that swept this young country during the Age of Enlightenment and then again at the turn of the early twentieth century. This is a gas insert framed out and then trimmed.. Engaged columns and fluting holds up a thin mantle resting on a chunky, classical crown with dentil moulding. Plinth blocks anchor the engaged square columns. The top of each column is finished with a plinth block that is enhanced with a single star on each block .
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