We moved into our new home two years ago, and it has been a dream come true.  It’s a beautiful three bedroom, two-bathroom ranch style house complete with all of the upgrades.  So far, the upgraded granite countertops have been wonderful.  The ceramic tile floors in both bathrooms, the kitchen, the laundry room and the entryway are beautiful.  The garden tub is the perfect spot to soak after a long day at the office.  The fireplace is… well, to be quite honest, it’s spotless.  Never been used.  For the first six months that we lived here we sat our infant son’s swing in front of it and tried to hide the fact that we had a lovely fireplace that we had no idea how to use.

When we were building our home, we just had to have the fireplace.  We had visions of warm crackling fires, sitting in our cozy chairs, sipping on a nice glass of red wine reading a good book and relaxing.  When we moved in, we got the reality check.  We live in Texas.  Besides the fact that there are only a handful of days every winter that are actually cold enough for a fire, neither one of us have any idea how to even make a fire!  And if we did make a fire, we’d have to be on high alert to make sure the kids didn’t get into it and accidentally hurt themselves.  Someone would have to clean up the mess, and we’d have to maintain the chimney.  Somehow that did not sound like the relaxing visions we’d cooked up. So like many homeowners, we ignored the fireplace and just chalked it up to a bad decision.

The answer to our fireplace dilemma came to me one day when I was lounging in my yoga pants having some coffee one weekend morning watching some Home and Garden Television.  I saw one of the designers put an electric fireplace in the home-owner’s bathroom.  Wait a minute…  They make electric fireplaces?!?!  I was intrigued!  Lo and behold, I found the answer to our fireplace dilemma!  We needed to get an electric fireplace insert, and we needed it fast!

We opted for an Electric Log Insert.  We only spent about $250 and it was easy to install.  We just popped the insert in, plugged it in, and our previously unused fireplace was suddenly a delightful focal point in our living room.  Since most of the time, we do not need to create any added heat in our home, we can operate our insert without heat and still enjoy the ambiance of the flame effects.  The handy remote lets us adjust our “fire” from the comfort of our cozy chairs.

The best thing about our new electric fireplace insert is that we get all of the perks with none of the fuss.  We can use our fireplace any day of the year, and there’s no messy clean up or risk of burning anything (or anyone).  We could not be happier with our once unused fireplace now that we’ve found a great way to enjoy it.

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