Hi everyone! Thanks for the ideas for what to do with the fireplace. It is an original fireplace so taking it out is not an option and I really want to make a feature of it. The house is late 1800's built so I don't want to remove anything. I like the idea of metal frames and decor. This is now how the fireplace looks now thanks to all of your suggestions! But I'm still stuck with how to hide the ugly metal and wooden centre

Ok so this may sound stupid and I have no idea if it can be achieved, I am sure a lot of tradesmen on here would laugh but I’m trying to think outside of the box for a shoestring budget. So I’m a major fan of ikea hacks, you can customise furniture for so little money and you really can be quite creative. As for faking Crittall Windows........ providing this is for internal aesthetics only I would love someone to experiment with this idea in a man cave. Use the black powder coated aluminium pax wardrobe frame from ikea and get a glazier to cut the glass to required size using the ikea inserts as a template. Obviously your door widths would have to be increased but this could work against stud partitions in large apartments to separate areas of space maybe? U can all laugh at me now!

I totally agree with Maths Wife. It's a lovely room, but when I look at the pictures I see the TV first. When you are not watching it, it might feel a bit strange facing a wall with just a black glass rectangle there. Solid black next to anything pale creates such a strong contrast that it dominates visually, this is why people sometimes paint a TV wall a dark colour, it then recedes. Another ploy is to make the TV part of a gallery wall so that there are other things to relate it to. I like the image above showing a long wide unit with a lamp, mirror etc. Compare the above images with the TV with the last one without and you can see how black dominates.

It's an absolute pain trying to source them for clients, but we've managed to hack our way through it using SOLYX's reeded glass film. https://solarshield.co.uk/products/solyx-decorative-privacy-window-films-by-solarshield You can contact the team at Solar Sheild & let them know what you're looking for exactly in terms of finish & size & then pop it directly onto your glass doorframe! Best of luck with this :)