For contractors, installing a cast stone fireplace in a residence, condo or apartment building can present so many labor and material costs - not to mention installation issues - that it can scuttle a ...

Or it won’t be, once you follow this advice. By Tim McKeough “The fireplace must be the focus of every rational scheme of arrangement,” Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. wrote in their 1897 design ...