So that our home has a comfortable, warm and somewhat traditional atmosphere, a fireplace can be the most suitable decorative and functional element for it. The hearth Not only will it provide us with warmth on the coldest days of autumn and winter, but the peace and harmony that a living room with a fireplace can offer can also become a habitual and daily experience in your day-to-day life as one of the most rewarding.
Even so, there are people who seriously consider the use of a fireplace or not, and therefore, whether to leave it once they move to a house that already had it before or whether to include it in the plans of their new house. What would you choose? Fireplace yes or fireplace no in your home? Next, we tell you both the advantages and disadvantages of having a fireplace at home.
Advantages of having a fireplace
- They provide a cozy and endearing image to our living room.
- They warm the home. A heat that spreads throughout the house and quite long-lasting.
- It's a good decorative element to accompany us before unique moments: a marriage request, a romantic moment with your partner, a family moment with your children at Christmas, etc.
- Because it is a Christmas ornament himself during this holiday. You only need the socks corresponding to each member of the household to finish your decoration.
- Because in front of her we can have a super appropriate place to meetings of all kinds, both family and friends.
- Because the fire hypnotizes and helps to relax, to release accumulated tensions from day to day, stress, etc.
- Because they give more value to our house.
- Cause when it's spring or summer and we don't need to turn it on we can store things in it.
Disadvantages of having a fireplace
- It may be a expensive investment make a fireplace from the beginning.
- It is not valid for any type of home, but it must be conditioned to be able to have it.
- They are always needed on hand logs, branches and lighter pills to be able to light the fire.
- If you do not have access to free wood, depending on where you buy this firewood it can be a lot more expensive to be heated with electricity or gas.
Having or not having a fireplace at home is a decision that only you can make and especially taking into account these advantages as disadvantages. I personally bet on chimneys. The atmosphere that a fireplace gives off is incomparable ...