Electric Fireplace Design Ideas
Gas Fireplaces: Adding Warmth To Your Home
No matter where you live, in a townhouse, a lakeside cottage, an urban loft, or a vintage Victorian mansion, there is always a place for a gas fireplace. Convenient and easy to use, gas fireplaces today offer an abundance of design ideas to suit both your lifestyle and the style of your home.
According to the recent statistics, a fireplace is one of the most commonly anticipated features in a modern home. Freestanding gas fireplaces deliver radiant heat to any room in your house – from kitchen to dining room and even bedroom, – or outdoors, warming your patio or a backyard. Classic terracotta finish or modern and minimalist brushed steel can give a whole new look to any of your rooms.
Modern fireplaces offer a variety of choices when in comes to fuelling. They may be wood burning, gas- or propane-fuelled, as well as liquid fuelled. The choice is totally up to you. Do you plan to chop wood, or you opt for a convenience of a gas? The kind of fuel you choose is a crucial factor in deciding what kind of fireplace to buy. Consider availability and cost, heat efficiency and your local air pollution standards. There are special regulations that concern the design, verification and labeling of gas fireplaces or imported into the North America.
Gas fireplaces are very energy efficient and can even be used to heat a whole house. With a prefabricated duct system heat travels from one room to another, however, not many households allow for this unless installed during construction. Gas fireplaces, being very easy to use, can be even turned on with a remote control or by the Internet in the new smart home! Thermostats allow for an easy heat adjustment, and with many programmable features you can also change the flame length and intensity.
Gas fireplaces are fuelled by propane or natural gas. Propane can be stored in a reservoir on your property, however, it can be more expensive in the rural areas compared to the wood. But with this type of fireplaces, you don’t need a lot of logs to chop and store. In general, gas fireplaces require significantly less maintenance.
The firebox of the gas fireplace is lined with a refractory material that looks like bricks or stones. Instead of blue unappealing flame that most of us expect from the gas, the fireplaces emit completely natural-looking flames that spout from invisible holes in prefabricated ceramic logs. Often these logs form a realistic pile on the bottom of the firebox. Some people prefer the inserts that look like a coal in Victorian-styled fireplaces.
Gas fireplaces are becoming a more and more popular alternative to conventional built-in fireplaces. Gas fireplaces can be as individual as you are. They can be framed in wood, finished in stucco, stone, or tile, thus fitting into most landscapes and home design solutions. Gas fireplace can become a focal point of your backyard or patio, and as any room in your home, an outdoor space must bear the same design concept as indoors. That is why when choosing a fireplace you should think about the environment in which it will be placed and how it will fit with the existing decor. But no matter which technology or functionality you choose, it is largely a design and materials that give your new appliance it’s distinctive style and make a design statement.
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how much is this worth????
I bought this wood stove to use in my fireplace and dosen’t fit. want to sell it any idea what it would go for used??? not sure what to sell it for. I looked it up on the internet and found this :MODEL FS260E
FRANKLIN FIREPLACE 26”
Made of all cast iron for better heat radiation, the Franklin Fireplace is designed to burn wood but will adapt for gas and electric logs.
The Franklin Fireplace features fold away doors with adjustable draft slides, grate, and top or rear mounted 8 flue adapter with damper (boot).
Brass knobs and screen are optional.
A handsome addition to any home!
FEATURES:
All Cast Iron construction.
Operates as a wood stove or fireplace.
Vents from top or rear of stove.
This wood stove accepts 20″ logs. ……came with the brass knobs and the screen also has some piping.
it works great, not broken just dosen’t fit my fireplace. it’s ion perfect condition
wanted to get maybe 250 for it.
I am very sorry to report that I doubt if you could get more than $25 for it..Because it is not worth more? No.. It is just the fact that no one is going to bother to fix it to fit their needs… People nowadays just do not bother and thus, will not pay what you think it is worth…
$178000 3BR/2BA – Sahuarita, AZ – 14141 S Placita La Veroni