a cor-ten steel fireplace makes for a chic industrial look

Being smitten with rusty steel, we love this solution to a rather homely exposed brick fireplace: cover it in sheets of intentionally-rusted corten steel (also known as weathering steel) and paint the flue blue.

via Japanese Trash

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