There are few things that I demand a home to have. One of the most important to me is a fireplace. Edna Ferber was so right when she said, "We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth, we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by."

When we first looked at our cabin, this was our fireplace. I loved the uniqueness of it. It has gone through several changes in its now 83 years of life (at one point someone had even painted the brickwork magenta). Knowing we didn't want the inconvenience of burning real wood, we hired a company to install a gas fireplace insert.
What seemed an easy task proved quite difficult for the installers. First they had to take out a massive Dianoga-like pipe (for those who are Star Wars fans, think the garbage compactor creature).
Another task, once the insert was in its place, was to fabricate a plate to seal the opening. We have delighted in the finished product for the last seven years (warmth, dreams and home).