I bought the fireplace for decoration in my living room. The heater does work decently well and I like that the display buttons show up when pressed but then disappear after a moment. It makes the fireplace look more realistic when running. And when you turn it off, the log color even gradually fades away. 
When putting it together we had to loosen some screws to make one of the pieces from the mantle fit properly. But overall it was fairly easy to build and just needed to be wiped down to remove grease from the screws afterwards.
I would definitely recommend it to others.