Stop in for a cup of coffee
Sounds perfect. I need to get our fireplace lined and/or put a gas insert in it.
It's too nice not to enjoy.
My dad had our upstairs fireplace converted to gas... The downstairs fireplace is still natural logs...
When I run the upstairs gas fireplace my gas bill goes up...
When I use the downstairs fireplace, the wood gets messy when the stuff falls off the logs... However we are near a forest preserve and have lots of trees nearby, so firewood is usually "free" after you get a dead tree cut down in our yard... (You still have to pay the tree service, so it's not truely free)...
But I like the wood fireplace better... There's no substitute for the smell and the way the wood burns in a natural wood fireplace... Dad taught me how to build a fire in the fireplace when I was 4 years old and I've loved building fires since...
Dad and I like to build large warm fires... When you look at the fireplace, you see it full of flame... Mom used to tease us and say that the flames in our fires go half way up the chimney... (sometimes they may have)...
We threw a New Year's Eve party here one year and had it downstairs... I took care of the fire in the fireplace and had the downstairs rec room so warm, they opened the outside door to cool it down... Our fireplaces here have liners and vents so when the fire gets hot, the natural convection circulates the air from the lower inlet ducts to the upper outlet ducts... Makes the fireplace more efficient for heat... It's a large fireplace and I like to build them warm... :D
It's cool to warm up by the fire and stare into the fire and coals and see them glowing... Especially with a Dalmatian next to me enjoying it also... :D