I have a fireplace in my dining room, but if the truth be known I rarely use it, and i do appreciate the Ambiance that a fireplace provides, but, fireplaces are entirely not all that relaxing a source of heating, however that is unless you get one of those fireplace inserts to turn your fireplace into an actual heater.
In that event, your fireplace can be a wonderful heater.
That is not what I have, though… What I have is an old fashioned wood burning fireplace. In fact, when I choose to use it, it makes such a immense mess that I normally wish that I would have just turned the temperature control on my furnace up higher instead of dragging all that wood plus creating all that Ash that has to be cleaned up plus so on, but anyway, I am having a change of heart this Christmas. I am beginning to think that I will use my fireplace this Christmas. In fact, I already have used it. I made the Trek out to the local grocery store to chance up a tote of Wood. That would have already been burned in my appealing fireplace, plus I made sure to take nice pictures of it to post on social media. Anyway, I did discover that the fireplace entirely is not a wonderful heater. I was kneeling right in front of it, plus I entirely could not even sense any heating coming into the room from it. I also scared the heck out of my cat, and she was looking at me appreciate why are you setting a fire in the dining room? In any event, it was pretty, even though it entirely wasn’t a wonderful heat source. Thankfully, I do have a wonderful Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C system with strong Heating plus Cooling, so I did not have to rely on the fireplace to keep me warm.