Electric Fireplace Ideas: A Light Bulb Above the Head

While an electric fireplace turns 100 percent of the energy it uses into heat for your home, traditional wood burning and even gas fireplaces let up to 50 percent of their heat escape up the flue.

You don’t have let your dream of having a fireplace go up in smoke. You can get an electric fireplace, which doesn’t even emit smoke! An electric fireplace has all the features of a traditional fireplace, without the mess and dangers. All you need to do is plug it in and turn it on and you will be sitting before those beautiful flames in minutes.

Fireplace location used to be an important part of any house design plan. Because of the venting requirements where you placed the chimney could determine everything else about the house, which way the living room faced for instance. An electric fireplace is moveable, so you can let your design determine its placement, not its placement determine your design as in the old days.

Some of the great features of an electric fireplace are that it does not loose any of its heat through a chimney, it does not require a venting system, and most especially it is incredible simple to use. An electric fireplace has the look of real burning embers and warm flames, without any of the hassles associated with a traditional fireplace.

While an electric fireplace turns 100 percent of the energy it uses into heat for your home, traditional wood burning and even gas fireplaces let up to 50 percent of their heat escape up the flue. On warm days, you can lower the heat of your electric fireplace, or even turn it off altogether. Electric fireplaces are also portable, so you can unplug it and put it in whichever room you desire.