I love this fire place. At first I was with everyone else and sad it wasn’t bright, HOWEVER…. When you open the glass part in the front I realized you are supposed to take the black peice out of the bottom. It looks like you are supposed to just set the logs on top of there.  It’s actually to hold the fake rocks. Take that piece out and set the logs directly on the strip of lights and it’s a definite game changer. I love it now. I’m angry this wasn’t in the instructions and was on the fence of sending it back.