These pillows are great for putting on our fireplace to use for extra seating. I use 3 pillows and increased our seating capacity for 3 extra people in our small den. However, the main reason I bought these was to protect my grandchild from falling on the brick and getting badly hurt. The pillows did prevent problems and are still great seating space. When we have a fire in the fireplace, I just grab them off! This was a good purchase!