Nothing like a real flame...?

[JayEgo]

We're lucky enough to have a working fireplace in four of our rooms, although we only use the one in our main living room, for safety reasons.

I was wondering who else has this luxury and gets to indulge in a real fire of an evening, warming their toes, or more often, some pet that lies far too close to the flames :roll:

Even though this is the second winter I've lived through with this benefit, it's still a novelty, having never experienced such as a child. Hubby grew up with a real fire and so it's less so for him, though he still appreciates the warmth as the outdoor temperature continues to drop! :snowflake:

Ja¥son xx

[Bobbsy]

The house we're in now has just plain boring central heating...no open fires at all. :(

....and boy do I miss having a fire in winter. There's something comforting about an open fire, and the activity of tending it is very satisfying indeed.

Bob

[prekharper]

Fake logs, real fire -- comes from gas jets.

[granath]

Just central heating, but when I was a kid we lived for a while with a fire, and it was really neat. More for decoration than heating, though. And for barbecuing sausages indoors!

[Rho]

We have a real fire in the sitting room. There is nothing like a real fire for roasting chestnuts or toasting marshmallows :) (although I hate the dust and ash it spews out :irked: ) and I love the smell of a peat fire – it's just so homely :good:

[Brezo3]

In my house now we only have what I like to call "cold heat." It's a central air heater but to me it seems like it jsut makes the place colder. We used to have a pellet stove that I loved but, alas, we moved and I'm stuck with cranky pseudo-heat. :irked:

:note: Heather

[Lily]

I used to live in a house with two open fires - it was lovely on a cold winter night. But the clearing up the next day is messy unless you're lucky enough to have storage space with access from outside to keep it filled up.
Got a gas heater now, it is very efficient

[C_ris]

Fake logs, real fire -- comes from gas jets.

snap.

[Beisla]

We have a real fireplace, but we rarely use it.

I think something may be wrong with it so it can't be used right now.

[Kitsch]

Sadly we just have central heating but I would love to have a real fire to toast marshmallows on and such :)

[Madrigal]

YOU ALL ARE THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF MORONS EVER TO HIT, I HATE YOU ALL AND WISH YOU'D DIE!!!...

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erm... does that count as a real flame? If so, it's the only one I've got. Our fireplace is a certified fire hazard.

;)

[Mausey]

Plain old central heating here but I'd love a firplace. The smell of pine and cedar buring is wonderful. The first thing I'd do when camping with the cubs was start a fire. I didn't have my tent up but I had a fire. :D

[C_ris]

Plain old central heating here but I'd love a firplace. The smell of pine and cedar buring is wonderful. The first thing I'd do when camping with the cubs was start a fire. I didn't have my tent up but I had a fire. :D

we always had to have fires on a metal table. Weren't allowed them on the ground. :(

[Selene]

In our family estate in Smaland we have fireplaces in each room. Weonly use a few of them because the chimneys is under renovation.The house has central heating but my sister and me are contemplating a thing called the Eksiio stove it's a thing that heats air and send it out in the house heated to a nice temperature.
We are leaving tomorrow for the country and we will have christmas with my niece and nephew and his twin daughters in the house.
It's years since I had my whole family around me at christmas I long for it.
And I long to see my dog run free around the park for as long as she likes.
My cousin Sara and her daughters and huge dog is also comming so there will be a lott :bouncy: :bouncy: of people to celebrate christmas :gifts: :reindeer: :reindeer: :santa2: :santa: :santahat: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :stocking: :xmas2: :snowfall: :xmastree: :cane: :xmas1: this year. :bouncy: :bouncy: oops sorry about that got a bit carried away there :O :O :blush: :blush: :ok:

[Kater]

I have a real fireplace but fake logs. :roll:

[Shadow*]

Real Fire and Central Heating. :D

When I moved back into the house I have to admit to shouting Hooray! no more mess with the ash, logs etc. as well as the dust and having to go into a dark coal shed where I just know the spiders are planning an ambush so they can jump me :eek: just lovely Central Heating with no mess.

However, I have returned to lighting the fire, perhaps it's psychological but the house just seems to be so much cheerier when there is a fire burning in the hearth, needless to say the Central Heating has been relegated to being used only when I come in too late to make it worth my while putting on the fire.

And just so you all know.....it was not the cats pulling a guilt trip on me by staring at, lying in front of, leaning against the fire guard curling up beside the empty hearth and finally giving me the big sad eyes that changed my mind. :roll: *wonders if she has convinced anyone, including herself, that the last statement is true?* :O

[AnnMarie]

I wish! :roll:

[Dawn]

Central Heating. When I was growing up, we had a wood stove - can't say that I miss the smoke that filled the house every time my dad put wood in and stirred up the ashes. :roll: It was lovely on the allergies.

My grandmother had a fireplace though. I always stood on the other side of the room from it because it was too hot. :crazy: Guess I'm not too fond of them. :tilt:

[Wolfegar]

Central Heating.

Oil furnace when growing up.

Gas furnace after the family moved out of that house.

Gas furnace/Central Heating now.

Some of my cousins had a fire place. If there was a fire going when we went to visit them, I often liked watching the dancing of the flames.

I do sometimes wish we had a fireplace here. But then, those chairs over by the west wall would have to go....

[Bertrand]

Fireplace? what fireplace? People will scratch thier heads and gather around your house to look if your house has a fireplace here.

[Sharon]

I live in an apartment, it has a gas heater. It heats the living room and dining area/kitchen just fine. Doesn't help with the bathroom or bedroom. Bathroom has a built-in electric heater. Bedroom has comforter, blankets and a warm cat. :cat:

[wulfin]

At home i'm in a condo..have nothin! At the cabin we have a real fireplace though..and NOTHING is as nice as the real ones...of course, they are a pain to clean out too.. :roll:

[j_mercuryuk]

really fire place. much more fun fake ones *plays with matches* oooooooooo firey.

[Elisabetha]

Not yet, and having the bathroom on the to do list will make sure it won't be anytime soon, but one day I will have a fire place, for real wood. Probably one that is closed of with glass panels so you can see the fire. Untill that time we make do with a fire thing in the garden, so when we are in the garden we can built a nice little fire that you can sit around and make marshmellows in.

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:

[Apocalypse]

Central electric here :crazy: I want a place with at least one working fire place - there's nothing like it if you have to live in a cold country. I'm all for being able to say what Bertrand said! :good:

[woollymouse]

We don't have a real fiere :( just electric storage heaters which turn the place into a suana over night!

[Goldendragon]

I have the real thing in the den plus a imitation fire place in my room. Its great. :ok:

[AnnMarie]

Have you people with fireplace use it during power outages??


Devvie...Back in 86, we had an early storm that how power out in parts of the area for two weeks or more. I have a gas stove and gas heat, so we were fine...

My boss at the time left the day before the storm for vacation with his wife, leaving their 12 year old son with their 21 year old daughter....in an elecric-everything house. They ended up hanging blankets over the windows and doors of the den, and sleeping and eating in there where the fire place was. Linda joked her brother got good use out of his scout training those two weeks!

[Maedhbh]

We have two fireplaces in the house. One upstairs, and one downstairs. But they haven't been used in a couple decades I don't think. They'd have to be cleaned by a chimneysweep first! Too much bother. So we use the furnace.

[bisb]

We have a woodstove insert in the fireplace that we use to heat the house in the fall and spring. And to make the house cheerier in the winter. Otherwise we use central air.

[Faren]

No fireplace. :sad: But then, it rarely gets cold enough here to be needed. We have central heat/air when it does get nippy.

[Priscilla]

We have a lovely big fireplace that has been used several times to keep the house warm enough when the power goes out so that the water pipes didn't burst. Unfortunately it is in desperate need of a professional cleaning and I wouldn't use it until it's been checked out. We haven't used it in about 25 years. When we move to a new place, a working fireplace will be on my list of things I want in the new house. I agree with everyone who has said that there is nothing more comforting than settling down in front of a roaring fire!

[Rho]

Have you people with fireplace use it during power outages??

Oh yes. We also have a generator as first line back up, but as that is away being fixed our fireplace is our back up, back up option.

[spellwight]

We have a regular fireplace in the living room, but since we moved our regulation sized pool table in there there's no place to sit and enjoy a fire.

I have a chiminea on the front porch which I will have lit tonight. We sit out there to enjoy the luminaries throughout the neighborhood.

Pizza and beer and a fire on the porch. Our traditional Christmas Eve event.

[Calaedros]

We have a real fire and a gas fire, as well as central heating. We don't use it so much here, but we have a holiday house on the north coast that we use the fire in more often. I was there a couple of days ago when my gf came over from England, and it's nice to watch films with the lights out in front of a fire :)

Cal

[Hans]

it states clearly in the rules

NO FLAMING

[granath]

it states clearly in the rules

NO FLAMING


:eek: :fiend: ROFLMAO!

[Maedhbh]

It states clearly in the rules: NO FLAMING
<starts fire> Hey. It's cold in here. I want some flames!
Seriously though, I sure miss SCA events. If for nothing else, for the lovely fires I could sit next to for hours late a night just being mesmerized by the flames/coals.

[Calaedros]

<starts fire> Hey. It's cold in here. I want some flames!
Seriously though, I sure miss SCA events. If for nothing else, for the lovely fires I could sit next to for hours late a night just being mesmerized by the flames/coals.

SCA?

Cal

[Maedhbh]

SCA?
Cal
http://annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/showthread.php?p=8772#post8772
There. Go read that. Made a separate thread to try to keep this one on topic. And feel free to IM me. :)

[Linmag]

We have central heating, but a gas fire with real flames in the living room.

[Earthmother]

No fireplace since I left home. I grew up with real flames and loved sitting by them. Our present home has a wall heater in the living room with a down comforter in the bedrooom. Maybe one day I will have a fireplace. :evil:

[Ravien Coromana]

we have a heating system, but i wish we had a fire, cause fire is cool! (well, eally, no, it burns.)

[C_ris]

We had a real fire at my aunts! It was great!!! :D

[DragonShadow]

we used to then we moved. now we dont any more. :sad: :cry: :banghead:

[Milo]

Yes, and it heats our house. :heartbeat its nice for warming your bum.

[JayEgo]

Have you people with fireplace use it during power outages??We rarely loose power round these parts and when we do, it's usually back on again in the time it'd take us to get a roaring fire going!

Ja¥son xx

[JayEgo]

it states clearly in the rules

NO FLAMING:roll:

Thyere's always one!

:darkside:

Ja¥son xx

[Nurianna]

when we have a fireplace we use it.. if it is too warm/hot to use it.. we have used orange/yellow flowers to give illusion.. and sometimes bunches and bunches of candles! this one is fun in an outdoor fire pit too~

I was camping and I didnt want to stay up dealing with a bonfire.. so I lit about 8 fat candles, very pretty~

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I just have plain ol' heating, but I've always wanted a real fireplace, nothing like a REAL fire :heartbeat In my grandparents old house, he built his own brick fireplace and it was lovely curling up by the fire, hearing the crackling and that lovely smell of burning wood in the winter :D And I loved cooking over the fireplace as well when we couldn't have a campfire :evil: There is absolutely NOTHING that tastes better than food cooked over a fire :drool: