We have a wood burning stove which is our main source of heat. I love the smell and it seems to get me warmer than any other kind of heat. We also have central heating with propane and two electric fireplaces. In North Dakota it gets cold! As a former logger, my husband still enjoys cutting firewood and I'm happy to burn it. I've also had my neighbors tell me that they love to smell our fire burning.

Very seldom - it's usually too hot - we will use it on Christmas. Out power was out last winter and it was wonderful to have it - our cats had never seen it on and it was fun watching them experience it.

Live in Illinois. Gas fireplace. Had to get rid of wood burning due to asthma. Use it nearly every night and love it!

We replaced our two gas fireplaces (living room and family room) in February with gas inserts that actually heat the room and they have both seen a lot of use (except during the summer) since then.

The increased use is partly that they now just turn on and off with a switch (no need to open the flue, find the lighter, turn the gas on, etc. - even the kids (teens) are quite comfortable using them but they wouldn't turn on the old ones. It's also in part that these fires heat the room, making it much more cosy than turning the heating up when they/we come home.

We will be remodeling several rooms and will add a direct vent gas fireplace to the bonus room above the garage (which has been a sort of media room all along) in part because the other two fires are now so nice. My son's campaigning for a fire in every room!

We use our gas fireplace often. It's our Bingo's favorite place to snooze.

Use our wood burning almost daily. Yes its messy but i prefer it to the faux gas ones.

I correct my answer: Sometimes we use our fireplace with candles. So we don't bother the neighbours and don't have the dirt, still we have the light and no burnig risk since the oven is fireproof.

I use the fireplace very seldom. I love a wood fire, but I hate the mess it leaves.

I wish I had a fireplace to use.

We have a wood burning fireplace and love it. Although rather inefficient it does provide warmth to the living room and is really nice to watch and hear the wood crackle

Always use our fireplaces. We have a gas one upstairs and a log in the basement.

If I had one then I would be using it!

If I'm not using my real fireplace with wood or presto logs, then I'm playing an 8-hour HD fire video on my big flatscreen TV. No wood, no gas, no mess. Obviously no heat either, but you feel warm just looking at it and hearing the gentle roar and cracking noises.

The one I have at home burns logs but we never use it. The one in our showroom is gas and works as a 50000 btu heater, so it is very functional plus adds ambience. I'm afraid it is much more practical than real logs....

Yes all the time!!

Yes! We use it every chance we get (which isn't very often since we live in Houston!). We have a great fire going now...

Heck yes! All day long during the winter! I'm sitting by it right now!

We have three, a large wood burning fireplace in our main family room that gets heavy use in the season. We have a gas fireplace in our bedroom and another gas fire place in our guest house...they all get used. Why would you want or have a fireplace, if you weren't going to enjoy them?

I have two wood burning fireplaces but stopped using them now. Too much mess and I don't like the odour of the smoke in the textiles. When I grow up I will have a gas insert installed. I will then use them often.

I have a wood burning fireplace in the den, with a gas starter. I have not been using it, as it interferes with heat to the other parts of the house, and don't like the slight wood smoke smell.

I have decided to get a ceramic gas log set to use with existing gas pipe so I can enjoy the fire and warmth with out the smell and mess...after 26 years!

The condo I owned for 7 years in NJ before moving to FL had a fireplace that I rarely used, but I always had a cord of wood in case of a winter power outage. Now that I'm in Florida with no fireplace, I KNOW I'd never use one but do miss having one as it's a nice 'design feature' (for lack of a better phrase) to have. (Plus, one can always put candles in it.)

I always have mine going on my days off. No sense in lighting it when I get home at 11 & go to bed at 1 on work days.

I need another good pic of my fireplace. I've cleaned up the brick & been through 3 different fireplace screens since this pic!

We are fortunate enough to have no fewer that six fireplaces, but really only use three on a regular basis. But we do love to have them along with an outdoor firepit.

We have too many spare the air days. It's unfortunate because I love to have a fire going. But, sadly, my fireplace is very inefficient and sucks all the warmth out of the room and house to really enjoy. We've talked about getting something with gas to use when we wanted and make the necessary adjustments for more efficiency. It is a pretty focal point though.

Absolutely love to have a fire -- used to do it pretty regularly, although evenings have a bit of a different tenor since Small Child arrived. Hope to get back to it more regularly -- meantime, it's like getting a little fix of camping when I don't get out to the woods...

We just had a 3 hour power outage on a sub zero day. Having a wood burning fireplace helped me maintain a livable temperature while we waited for electricity and heat to be restored. I wouldn't live without one.

we use ours everyday in the winter

Not yet, just had the chimney swept and need to figure out how to refill the has and have the gas line checked. Then we will be using :)

We do! Living in Minnesota can be harsh sometimes. The weather is not always sunny and warm. They make for a homy feeling though, don't you agree?

I used it when I had one (wood burning).

We live in Southern California and have two fireplace in a 2100 sq. foot home. Both gas. It is silly. We use one a few times a year but using the gas costs a fortune.

Like Jolene, we live in SoCal, BUT, we use our fireplace all fall and winter. I am always cold!

We have 8 fireplaces that are not in use at this time. I have plans to add gas inserts in maybe2 or 3.

Here is the one in our living room.

I most certainly do use it!!! I've had both gas and wood burning fireplaces. While I miss the smell of hickory or cherry wood burning, I love the gas fireplace in the den of my townhouse. I don't miss cleaning it out. I love the flip of a switch! Although it doesn't get Michigan cold here in NC, when it rains during the winter here it's always cold and damp. I'm on a slab foundation and it's always cooler downstairs. The fireplace heats it up nicely, makes it nice and cozy and toasty. Just had granite put on it -now it doesn't look like a black hole!!

Definitely, for the ambience!!! Ours is gas logs but very real-looking. Always when we have company when it's cool.

I live in a neighborhood of 100+ year old houses. The neighbors had theirs cleaned and inspected, and then lit a fire for Thanksgiving, unknowingly triggering a fire. The firefighters went in with chainsaws, and they were out of that house for about a year. This has totally doused use of fireplaces on the whole street.

I grew up with a fireplace in the house, i love it, and its great for cooking, my parents still use it almost everyday in the winter and also have installed a pellet stove in another part of the house. Moved to Canada and in my house there's a builder installed gas fireplace, a miserable thing that pulls more cold into the house than anything else, obviously the builder didn't splurge for a fan so even when turned on is worthless. So its in the "to fix" list and never used anymore

Obviously i have been spoiled by a real fireplace, even if it was installed and working properly this gas one is really sad in comparison...

We use our gas fireplace all the time in fall and winter and our outdoor one in summer. They are wonderful. I don't miss chopping wood or cleaning ashes for our old fireplaces and woodstove, but still prefer wood for a cabin or chalet in the snow in winter :-)

No because this fireplace has not been used in about 50 years. We would definitely need a major overhaul to use it.

At the beginning we were using it regularly, we were very impressed. Later on no one wanted to clean the mess, so now we are using it only during winter holidays.

Oh yes. I LOVE the smell of wood-burning fireplace, but now lean toward having gas FP for convenience. I wouldn't even consider buying a house without at least one fireplace. We are looking to build or buy a new house and I am beyond puzzled so many homes here in this cold, prairie climate do NOT have a fireplace (but often DO have dedicated movie rooms, etc). Maybe they had a bad experience, IDK, but again, I'd NEVER want to live w/o a FP. A beautiful, cozy fire touches the soul.

I burn candles in mine during the winter. Two keeps things nice and toasty. Lasts for 3-5 days. Line bottom with foil and remove when done. No mess, no ashes, no fuss!!!

Our 1953 house needed a new damper and a complete chimney relining to
make the fireplace usable. The least costly alternative was a gas
insert that, while not providing the sounds of a crackling fire,
definitely has the look and heating ability of a wood fire. Extra
benefit, during power outages ( ours was out for more than a week during
Hurricane Sandy ) it'll still work and provide good radiant heat even without the circulation blower.

In Minne-snow-ta? Ubetcha we do!!

I like our propane/gas fireplace. But ... and it's a "big" but, I don't use the fireplace much so the pilot light burns the majority of my propane. Because of this I now don't like using the fireplace at all as it is a waste of money. I find the ignition systems in gas fireplaces to be wanting. I wish I had a wood-burning fireplace as I used to.

After watching the rep install a Tulikivi soapstone masonry heater in a clients home last year, I was sold. Wood heating that hold temps steady for up to 2 days due to the large thermal mass. Had ours installed & couldn't be happier..... nothing like walking around in shorts & t-shirt while watching it snow outside :)

The masonry heaters, kachelofens, and tile stoves are the future of home heating with wood. They are clean, safe, economical and provide comfort for the owners.

I design and build them.

When the power has gone out due to storms, etc. we've even used our fireplace for cooking.

I don't have one and don't want one. They are a waste of space as far as I'm concerned, and it's never cold here anyway. One of my requirements before buying this house was that it not have a fireplace. Not having a chimney lowers our home insurance rates - they tend to fall over in earthquakes.