Fireplaces are indisputably cozy. They evoke fresh snow and hot cocoa, winter weekends holed up in rustic cabins, favorite stews simmering on the stove. While installing a real, wood-burning one ...

This drab fireplace is shown before its transformation via the trompe l’oeil technique, which will make it look like tiled. Artist Dannae Howe creates a tiled look with a faux painting technique to ...

Honestly, does anything shout “Christmas” more than a fake fireplace? Every year my father would set up the stepladder in our second-floor hallway and climb up into the garret, there to retrieve all ...

Russell Pray of Attleboro wanted the look, feel, warmth and glow of a real fireplace when he and his wife decided to redeco rate their home on Wheaton Drive. So, he went right out and bought a fake ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — Fake fireplaces do not need real rules on energy efficiency. A federal appeals court on Friday threw out an Energy Department rule that could have forced decorative fireplaces ...

For years, fireplaces blended in too well at Heidi Noun’s north Capitol Hill home. One fireplace was hidden behind a wall, and another was plain white and drab. At the suggestion of an interior ...