Woodpile in the interior or a place for storing firewood for a fireplace

True connoisseurs of antiquity cannot imagine their apartment without a real fireplace that would be drowned with firewood. And here the question arises, how to make a stack of firewood for a fireplace a beautiful element in the design of a room that harmoniously fits into the overall picture of the room. The issue of fire safety should also not be idle for you, since it is most convenient to place a woodpile next to the fireplace, and this increases the chance of fire. Nevertheless, these questions should not stop you, because a fireplace with a beautiful woodpile will be a real decoration of the room.

Woodpile and fire safety

How to combine together two questions - woodpile as a beautiful element of the interior of a room and at the same time safe from a fire point of view? The last question should dominate the first, because “beauty” does not always “save the world,” that is, your home. Despite the fact that the tree lights up at a temperature of the order of 300 degrees, firewood can ignite itself after prolonged contact with the wall of the fireplace, heated to 100 degrees. Therefore, you should adhere to certain rules. Here are some of the most important ones:

carefully store the place of storage of firewood from chips and sawdust.
if the place of storage of firewood is in close proximity to the fireplace, then it should be insulated with non-combustible material. Even felt saturated with clay mortar will do.

the optimal distance of the woodpile from the fireplace should be 38 centimeters.

the woodpile should still be closed with doors, like a closet. But in order to maintain a sense of the presence of the firewood themselves near the fireplace, these doors can be made of glass.

if the firewood is stored in a mobile structure, then it should be at a distance of 150 centimeters from the open fireplace insert.

the length of the log should not exceed the length of the fireplace insert.

Woodpile as an element of room interior design

With all the significance of the fireplace in the interior of the room, it is unlikely that the firewood randomly thrown near it will decorate the interior. Therefore, the next question will be how to organize a woodpile so that it harmoniously fits into the overall interior, decorates it.

Built-in closets are a very popular place to store firewood. Filled with firewood, they will bring an additional effect of warmth to the room. Designers recommend arranging cabinets symmetrically relative to the fireplace, because symmetry is the most common property of everything that exists on the planet and makes it beautiful. Of course, firewood randomly stacked in cabinets with great difficulty can be called a beautiful design element. Therefore, it is necessary to fill the cabinets evenly, carefully placing firewood in them. And if rich imagination is inherent in you, then they can be folded in the form of some kind of ornament.

You can make cabinets of a shape different from the standard, rectangular, which will give originality to your interior design.

But what to do to the person who has not a traditional fireplace heated with wood, but a modern, electric or gas one? After all, there is always a desire to have, if not an original fireplace, then at least made for it and having all the attendant attributes, in particular, firewood. The issue is completely solved through the use of prints with the appearance of a woodpile.

Modern design is perfectly complemented by decorated woodpiles. They are small wall sawn timber (cuttings) attached to the wall plane in the fireplace area. This option is more preferable for owners of modern, not wood-burning, fireplaces, since the full impression of stacked firewood is created, even when they are carefully examined. In the case of woodpile prints, this effect, of course, is not.

In summer, when the fireplace is not used, or in autumn, when there is no particular need for heating, and the fireplace is rarely used, its firebox will be a suitable place to store a small amount of firewood. At the same time, the woodpile can be a rather interesting version of the design of the room.

A nice addition to the design of the room can be a niche with folded thin firewood for kindling a fireplace. The apparent negligence in the laying of these firewood adds to the interior the reality of what is happening.

Firewood storage in the interior of the apartment

Storage of firewood in metal structures, especially those with wheels, will greatly simplify the use of such woodpiles. Such a woodpile can always be put in the place you like, which makes it more preferable to other options.

But if there is no way to store a significant amount of firewood, you can use special baskets. Their design is quite diverse. This can be a wicker rattan basket, a basket of fine metal mesh, and even knitted. But here you will need to take care of cleanliness near the fireplace. Under the basket there should always be any rug, or stand in the form of a box. This will protect the place of storage of firewood from garbage.

But if the size of your room with a fireplace allows, then here you can organize the most popular place to store firewood - these are built-in wardrobes or, if you like, niches.

This version of the woodpile is good in that it allows you to store large stocks of firewood, sufficient for a fireplace for a long period.

In the summer, the fireplace itself can be a place to store firewood.

If it is impossible to store firewood in the immediate vicinity of the fireplace, the woodpile may well be in another room, which, with a certain creative approach, will not at all ruin the interior of this room.

The original decision will be to organize a woodpile, combined with a table, bookcase or other furniture. The undoubted advantage of this option will be to save room space.

Finally

In conclusion, I would like to draw your attention to another question - which firewood is preferable to use.

You must admit that no matter how beautiful and original you organize a woodpile, if it is filled with logs from railway sleepers, which are also half-rotten, it is unlikely that such a woodpile will flavor the room. It is not worth talking about the effect of burning such firewood. From this example it follows that the preparation of firewood for woodpiles in the apartment also requires a certain approach and knowledge.

Do not fill the woodpile with raw firewood, and even more so, with rottenness. Such firewood will emit an unpleasant odor around the apartment. It will be very difficult to melt and melt the room with them, they will exude a lot of smoke, which in no way will contribute to the comfort of the room.

But if you fill the woodpile with well-dried logs, everything will be the way you dreamed of, thinking up a woodpile in a room with a fireplace - logs crackling in the firebox, bright flames and a pleasant smell from burning firewood. Complete idyll.

In order to have well-dried firewood in the woodpile, you must place them under a street, well-ventilated canopy before entering the apartment in early autumn. This will bring the moisture content of the wood to the required level (25%). For orientation, you should know that living wood has a moisture content of approximately 50%.

When storing firewood in a poorly ventilated place, firewood is covered with mold, as a result of which such firewood will clearly not “ozonize” the air in the room.

It is important to know the properties of wood species used as firewood. Connoisseurs of fireplaces advise using cherry, apple, juniper to enhance the aromatization of the room. These species can be added to the bulk of firewood as, so to speak, flavoring. For the most part, preference is given to birch, oak, and aspen wood.

Also, to exclude the appearance of cockroaches and other insects in the woodpile, experts recommend treating it with any antiseptic.

If the above options for organizing firewood storage places for a fireplace do not “hook” you, you can, nevertheless, using them as a basis, independently come up with your own woodpile. The main thing is that after this work your room will become not only warm and cozy from the firewood burning in the fireplace, but also stylish from the beautifully and in its own way original folded woodpile.