I was in my best friends new townhouse and noticed that his fireplace was different. I couldn’t put my finger on what was different at first but I knew that this wasn’t the fireplace I was used to seeing there. The thing is he never actually used his fireplace before so I never paid much attention to it. He didn’t like cleaning up the wood after burning a fire so he just didn’t use it. What he did, however was went out and purchased one of those Electric Fireplace Inserts that turn your brick wood burning fireplace into an electric fireplace heating unit. What this did was put up an artificial fire and the heat of a real fire without the messy cleanup! It blended very naturally into the fireplace as if it was there all along.