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Gas fireplace (where there is no fireplace)
Idle question while I'm house hunting. My current row house has a wood
burning fireplace that I have literally never used - I don't want to deal with lighting a fire and then worrying about it when I want to go upstairs (and trust me, I'm a worrier). However I do like the *look* of the fireplace. I've looked at several houses recently, and thought that if they had regular fp's I might convert that to gas since I like the idea of being able to turn it on and off. But some of the houses don't have any fp's at all. Is it possible to put a decent looking "after market" fireplace in a house, without having to do a major renovation? Something that doesn't look like the "fireplace in a box" things that they sell on HSN? I wouldn't be using it for heating a house (except maybe if there was a power outage), but as a supplemental heater, sort of like a pretty space heater. I guess I'd entertain the idea of electric as well if they look decent. The last electric one I saw quite a while ago was only a step above a fan with orange tissue paper! I haven't even gone to look at any yet. Just thought I'd ask here to see if this is even practical to consider, or to find out what I should look for if I go looking. Thanks |
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