We had a real open fire at out last house. When we moved here I was bit sneery about the gas fires they had installed - the ones that try to look like real ones and we decided to take them out and open up the real fire places. But.....I have the gas fire burning in the dining room atm and it's really quite nice. I haven't had to fight with ash and plead with the kindling to light or hold paper over the front to make it burn up......
This one has white sort of pebble things in it - why anyone would want to burn pebbles I don't know. The other one has 'coal' in it.
Am torn now. Would you take a gas fire out to make room for a real one or is that just a bit precious?