We love this fireplace. Mantle/surround “bone” color is perfect (just off white to feel warm and not too sterile). Flames are not like legitimate fire, necessarily, but enough to lend the ambiance and not so bad that it looks cheesy. I put it together in 45 min by myself with my 5 year old “helping”, which certainly added time to a super easy assembly. It plugs into a regular outlet and goes, and the fab puts out some serious heat in a small- to medium-sized room! It’s also super low-profile/doesn’t take up lots of space in a room, but it just deep enough to hold a book or do some styling on the mantle.