There is nothing like the light that comes from a beautiful fireplace.
I have always had a special fondness for fireplaces, I guess that this is because I grew up with them as a kid, then my parents lived in a new home with a sizable fireplace and I have more than 2 fond memories of Christmas afternoon in front of the fireplace plus sleeping in front of the fireplace on cold nights, all of us had a central gas furnace, but there is just something extra special about sleeping in front of the flames, and ever since I have made it our goal to continue the tradition and give our own children the same appealing feeling that I had growing up, however so when our wife and I were going new home hunting both of us both decided to purchase a single with a fireplace.
I don’t want no gas or electric fireplace either, it has to be the traditional kind, the real deal. My wife and I did find a new home both of us loved and it unfortunately didn’t have a fireplace, both of us discussed the option of having a single put in by the local Heating & A/C corporation, but in the end both of us decided that it was too giant of a job and way too high-priced so both of us continued to look for other houses, and when both of us found the house both of us have now, both of us knew right then and there that it was the perfect a single for us, however now our kids love the fireplace as much as I did when I was their age. It absolutely has worked out appealingly for our family and is perfect for the holidays.