When we were choosing a 'home' to live in, there were many, many things on our have to have list. Bunk room, slides on two sides, outdoor kitchen, and wall space! to hang pictures, to put bookshelves, to make it feel like a home.
The one thing I had to give up in the end, was a fireplace.
I found the exact one they put in our trailer online. Putting the information up on my pinterest blog for future reference, I accepted my trailer fireplaceless.
My daughter ordered me the exact fireplace off of my pinterest information, and gave it to me for Christmas this year.
Furrion RV Electric Fireplace with Logs - 30" Wide - Recessed Mount - Black
We put this fireplace in, all by ourselves, the day after Christmas. Because we placed it where a fireplace was intended to go, there was already electric accessible inside the cabinet. We only hooked it up for electricity. It does have battery hook up, as well. We will have to look into that when we become more mobile in our RV life.
Husband has done a lot of electric wiring through the years, so this was an easy project for him to splice and dice it into place.
There is a remote control to turn this on and off and control the heat settings. You can also control the brightness of the flames. The glass front of the fireplace always stays cool. Heat comes out from the top left side of the unit. Everything else stays cool to the touch.
We had been using a small space heater to warm our living space during the cooler northern California days. This fireplace is much more efficient in warming the entire living room space. With the electricity included in the price of RV space rental. running the fireplace saves us money over using up our propane to heat this big beast both day and night.
With temperatures dropping down to freezing on many nights, you can definitely tell we are not is SoCal anymore. So, yes, this fireplace sill save us a lot of money through these winter months. Still, I really wanted the fireplace for the homeyness and ambiance. It definitely provides the peaceful calm I was hoping for.
Severus checking out the box
Day and night.
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