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How To Buy A New Fireplace Door Step #4: Rectangular or Arched?
The next step in selecting a new fireplace door is picking the shape of your door. Do you want it to be arched or square?
That’s assuming you already know what type of fireplace you have, you’ve measured your fireplace opening and you know what style of doors will work best. These steps are all necessities. From here on out it’s all about preferences and what fits your personal style.
If your fireplace opening is arched then you need an arched door. They are’t common. Click here or here to view our fireplaces that will fit an arch-shaped opening.
If your fireplace opening is square then you can choose a fireplace door that is either squared (also called rectangular) or arched.
“Wait a minute,” you might be saying, “How can my doors be arched if my opening is square?”
Good question. The doors will basically cut out an arched shape in your opening. The glass will be arched shape and the frame will fill in the upper corners of your opening. You’ll be reforming your fireplace without having to touch the brick or stone at all. The “square-to-arched” option is only available for masonry doors.
Arched doors can cost more than rectangular doors they reduce the size of the fireplace opening. If you want your fireplace to seem as big as possible or if you have a small fireplace and don’t want it to seem smaller than square doors are your best choice.
If you have any questions about what shape of doors would work best for you please call us at 1-800-272-7734 or send your question to Ask Jim!
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