Knock down fireplace in a sensible way?

[Heidina]

Thanks for the update! What a job and it turned out so well.
We also want to tear down our open fireplace that is nice to put the Christmas cards on at Christmas but is good for nothing else.
We were thinking of relining the channel afterward.

If you want to keep the nice open fireplace but get more heat, you can insert a fireplace insert. Before we installed ours, it only got warm about half a meter right in front of the open fireplace. Now the whole room is heated.