Happy with this purchase. Flames don’t look as realistic as the picture here but I wasn’t really expecting them to. This is great for a small room (I put it in my home office) for a little extra heat and some ambience. As others have said, I do wish the heat came out of the front vs the top of the unit but it isn’t a huge deal since the heat from this is supplemental to home heating. Only other slight changes I would make is to make the electric cord white instead of black. It’s also just a tad bit noisy with the heat on but definitely does emit some nice heat. Overall, really satisfied.