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Pellet Stoves: A Buyer’s Guide
If you're interested in purchasing a pellet stove for your home, read our comprehensive guide to help you shop more effectively.
How To Prepare Your Fireplace for the Cold Season
Before you spark up the logs, learn more about how to prepare your fireplace for safety, efficiency, and heat retention in the cold season.
17 Fireplace Upgrades
We rounded up 17 ideas to help you update and modernize your fireplace whether you have a tile fireplace or a brick fireplace.
All About Gas Fireplaces: Types, Costs, and Installation
We break down the different types of gas fireplaces for your home, questions to consider, key fireplace features, and costs.
All You Need to Know to Make a Mantel from Molding Profiles
This mantel is made up of numerous molding profiles to create depth, shadow lines, and visual interest. Here's how the pieces come together.
The Best Fireplace Inserts of 2024
Adding a fireplace insert to a living room or other area of your home can help keep you warm, and cut down on expensive heating bills, without the hassle of maintaining a traditional wood fireplace. Here are out top fireplace insert recommendations.
How To Install a Stone-Veneer Fireplace Surround in Your Home
In this video, senior technical editor Mark Powers shows how easy it is to dress up your fireplace with lightweight cast stones.
Get Your Firebrick in Shape for the Woodburning Season
Follow our handy fireplace repair guide to fix up loose mortar and get your firebrick in shape before the wood-burning season starts again.
Good Wood Fires
How to prep your fireplace for its busy season, with tips from chimney expert Mark Schaub
A Guide to Hearth Tiles: Materials, Cost, and Installation
This detailed guide explores various tile hearth flooring materials, including cost, how to choose the right tile, and basic installation.
A Step By Step Guide to Installing a Fireplace Mantel
Want to install a new mantel? It's not as hard as you might think. Follow this step-by-step guide for everything you need to know.
Fireplace Design Ideas
On a cold night, an industrial drum filled with coals is a beautiful fireplace. The trick is to create a fireplace that is art without a flame. Like these, for example.
How to Install Glass Fireplace Doors
This article explains how to quickly and easily install fireplace doors to help it become more efficient and safer.
Installing a New Mantel
You can give your fireplace a face-lift by replacing its decorative frame
Step by Step Guide to Reface a Fireplace Surround and Hearth
In this guide, we show you how to reface a fireplace surround and hearth to create a stylish centerpiece for your living room.
Easy Mantel Makeover: Transform Your Fireplace in a Weekend
Give your home's fireplace a fresh look by renovating the mantel and surrounding area with these easy-to-follow instructions.
How To Use Pellet Baskets for Your Fireplace or Wood Stove
Using wood pellets can give you more heat and efficiency from your fireplace or woodstove. Learn how to use a pellet basket from our experts.
What is a Rumford Fireplace, and Why You Should Consider One
Rumford expert Jim Buckley explains how to build a better fireplace using 18th-century engineering in this helpful article.