Fireplace Makes a Great Atmosphere

I love fireplaces I reallly lament this house doesn't have one. I have to resort to watching the Yule Log on TV.

I love a fireplace also. We had a natural wood burning stove insert in our fireplace at 1 home that we lived in. It was nice while we had a free supply of wood. My hubby would save the apple and pear to burn at Christmas time, it gave such a beautiful scent to the house. The downside to a natural wood burning fireplace was the time, work and energy involved in cutting the wood, stacking it neatly, hauling it inside when you were low, and the mess of the ashes.

It depends where a fireplace is located. Ours is in the center of how the house was originally built. It keeps all of that warm.

'tis mesmerizin' fer certain. spent many a year choppin' wood, loadin' wood, unloadin' wood. 'twas not jest our 'nly source 'f heat, but sold such to others. most opted fer delivery 'n careful stackin'..

I love our gas fireplace, it gives out all kinds of heat and I love watching the flames, also:) We had a potbelly stove in this home, our first winter we lived in one room. Mom even made oatmeal and coffee on top of it! In later years, Dad put a woodstove in their livingroom. He chopped wood that he found out of the woods(National Forest). Their home was too warm, at times

The fireplace reminded me of my home in Ireland. We had a fireplace in the living room in our rented house. We had to use turf to make the fire and to keep ourselves warm. It was a cozy atmosphere we had.

Yes Gas Fireplaces are good ones. Of course, the wooden ones would have meant more smoke! You must be enjoying the warmth and the X-Mas spirit!

Yes it sure does, nothing like the hearth to warm hearts too

Growing up we had a kitchen stove and a furnace that were working with wood, So, us the kids, did a lot of work for that wood and when we complained, my Mom would say to us" You will be happy in the winter to have a warm house and good food from the oven",

We have a wood burning fireplace. I’m not sure why, but we’ve never used it.

Never been near a fireplace. My mom always wanted one though

We haven't used our fireplace in years. The last time was when the heat was off for 3 days.

@CarolDM I like to watch the fire, it relaxes me but I don’t have a fireplace. The other day I was looking in the store, an imitation fireplace but it is a heater, but it's very nicely done, it looks like real fire.. and it is too expensive about 250e cost

That's a good fireplace we always do that before

There’s a video on You Tube that has a fireplace for ambiance and white noise. It is quite relaxing! Makes me want to grab a cup of hot chocolate!

Sometimes I miss my old wood cook stove then I remember the gooey pasta cause it was so hard to keep the heat steady-hot.

I love to watch the flames in the fireplace. They seem to hypnotize you and take you off into dreams. When we lived in upstate New York we had a wood burning stove. It kept you toasty warm but you couldn't look into the flames and dream.

I love a fireplace!

much better than the heater. i love it too but we don't have it in our house as we live in a tropical country.

And I always liked to look at the fire.