My hubby was so impressed with this he told me, ""you have to write a review about this, it's perfect!"" It is better than we thought we would be able to have! We have a beautiful stone fireplace but the chimney was no good & we couldn't replace it without tearing out the whole thing. So we thought, what do we have to lose? If it's too fake looking we will send it back & just put candles in the firebox. It is really very nice, good size, nice flame, very well constructed. We can't wait until our company over the holidays see it. They will love it!