Fire, Fire, Everywhere

(Expresione fireplace, courtesy of Planika Fires)The calendar may have read only October, but the first snowstorm of the season already swiped the Eastern seaboard, from Maine to Maryland, catching many people unprepared.  And it’s not even officially winter yet!

As thoughts scurried to winter coats, blankets, and the like, I started to dream about fireplaces…the warmth from the flames, the romantic glow of the dancing amber and red colors.  Then I woke up to chilly reality….I live in an apartment that never had fireplaces and never will.  But of course, some imaginative minds thought – let’s solve that!

Enter the “faux” fireplace.  They don’t require a chimney flue, gas, or electricity –

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