My new place currently has a wood-burning fireplace. I'm not particularly a 'fireplace' guy, and we're currently considering removing the wood-burning unit and doing an electric insert (no natural gas in the units themselves, so no way to retrofit a gas insert).
I took a drive down to Barbecues Galore to look at what they had -- and they had a lot to choose from -- but now that I've seen them in person, I am really not sure I like
any of them. The electric ones just look
so artificial and weird.
Is there really a compelling reason to go in one direction over the other, either go with an electric insert or just keep the wood burner? We've already decided we are cladding the fireplace wall itself with a nice big 'f-ck off' piece of
stone slab so there will be work done no matter what, but I'd like to do it once and be done with it.