Bodged period fireplace in bedroom, worth renovating?

[Pannacotta]

It's in our master bedroom, mid-Victorian house.
The hearth has been replaced with cheap quarry tiles, the surround is a DIY stripped pine job (looks awful) and the cast iron inner (back plate?) is a bit broken right at the back but this could be hidden with large candles/fairly lights etc.

We wouldn't want to use it but I have never had a house with a fireplace in our bedroom and think it could look rather nice.

We'd have to have it swept, take the whole thing out, re-do the hearth, put it all back in and then get a new surround.
Not sure I'd bother repairing the back plate.

What would you do?

(And apologies for the rambling message!)

I'd probably paint the pine surround white. If you were doing it on the cheap (and weren't going to be lighting a fire) you could probably retile the hearth with some black slate tiles for a cheap fix. But if you have more budget, I'd get a proper slate hearth put in.

I agree, I would have painted the surround but its put in on the wonk and would need to be taken out and re-fitted and am not sure its worth it...

Was thinking about removing the hearth and just doing without, but putting in a smart surround.

Have been browing the web for surrounds but no joy as yet..

I actually reinstated the fireplace in ours. Looks lovely and we have used it a couple of times. Total indulgence though. How much spare floor space do you have? Our hearth is about 30-40cm wide and the width of the fireplace.

SOunds lovely yomella....
Love the idea of being able to light the fire perhaps we should renovate it properly...

We already have a hearth so prob around 40cm depth and the surround is over a metre wide (at a guess).
Its not space we are short of, its inspiration and £££!

(We have a huge to-do list of house renovations including loads of boring things like electrics/heating/boiler etc...?

I had a hole in a room of my previous Victorian house and got a Victorian cast iron fireplace for free from somebody who wanted to get rid of it. I restored myself and then my partner put it in. Plenty of info online on how to do it. I did it while pregnant and using obnoxious paint stripper but kept the windows open. It was lovely when finished with a coat of heat resistant black paint. Sadly I sold the house but got a bit extra for having two period fireplaces as the other room had a marble one.

I remember investigating surrounds from DIY stores and they didn't fit or were awful. Reproductions are sometimes OK but not that cheap. I know of somebody who found one in a builder's skip or you could try freecycle for a wooden one that is not too new...

I would definately keep and use it.

Does it actually need a surround? A lot of Victorian bedroom fireplaces didn't have one. We have one in our boys room (retrieved from a garden). This doesn't have a surround or shelf.

I would like to keep it and restore it but yes it does really need a surround as the only original bit left is like the cast iron insert here
www.direct-fireplaces.com/p/85710/gallery-collection-traditions-cast-iron-arched-fire-insert.html
which I think would look ok minus a surround.

WI'll speak to a builer I think and look out ffor surrounds.