Fireplace, To Have Or Not To Have?
By Susan
@HazySue (39265)
Gouverneur, New York
November 10, 2018 9:19am CST
I love fireplaces which is rather strange for someone who lives in Florida. A fireplace down here with all the warm weather we have seems a little ridiculous doesn't it?
Ridiculous or not I want a fireplace. I want one sitting in my living room dominating it with it's hypnotic flames drawing me into a serene place as fireplaces often do.
Actually we have been looking at portable fireplaces. They actually make so really nice ones these days. The mantle is used for a TV so it has two purposes. Also, it is a big plus that you can turn on the fire without the heat.
Who knows one day I may be putting an image on here of my new fireplace.
What do you think of fireplaces? Do you like them or are they too much bother?
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@snowy22315 (208801)
• United States
10 Nov 18
I love fireplaces. I consider it a real travesty that this house with all the wood around doesn't have one. They could have at least put in piping for a woodburner. I have a fake woodstove that throws real heat in my bedroom and has a burning wood display, and I sometimes use a portable firepit, that is as close as I get.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
10 Nov 18
@snowy22315 that's the kind of fireplace I have been looking at. I always wanted a fireplace in my bedroom.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
10 Nov 18
I love the look of them. We have one.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
11 Nov 18
@HazySue I know it is probably odd, but we've never used it. We have Central air and heat.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
11 Nov 18
@Tampa_girl7 To me it's comforting and romantic, in a way.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
10 Nov 18
We live in a 100-year-old house in the English Midlands, in an area that used to have plenty of coalmines. We therefore have a fireplace! However, we have now adapted it to take a wood-burning stove.
The house originally had four fireplaces - two downstairs, and two in the main bedrooms.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
10 Nov 18
We don't have a fireplace, but I like them. There is one in my mother's house and we often drink coffee in front of the fireplace on a cold day. In Estonia I worked in a place where the fireplace was the only source of heating. When we arrived in the morning we had to light the fireplace fire right away, otherwise the room was too cold. In own country people have fireplaces because they like them, not because they depend on them.
@JudyEv (381916)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Nov 18
We have one and use it regularly throughout the winter. It has been cleaned out now and the wood all carted back to the wood shed. To me, they are very comforting to sit in front of.
@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
11 Nov 18
I love them but an expense I would invest in for use only a couple of days in the wwinter season
