Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

With the convenience of remote control for temperature settings and turning the fire on and off, Duluth Forge’s dual-fuel needs no electrical hookup. It produces 26,000 British thermal units (BTUs) an ...

The typical range for installing a gas fireplace insert is $700 to $6,500 with a national average of $3,600. Cost factors for installing a gas fireplace insert include the insert size, labor and ...

There’s nothing that delivers cozy quite like a fireplace to gather around on a chilly winter day. With a wood fireplace, there’s time and effort involved—chopping wood, keeping wood stored and dry, ...

If you want a low maintenance heat source under a covered patio or somewhere outdoors but close to your house, a patio heater can be a better fit for you than, say, a wood-burning fire pit. There are ...

In spite of the early evening chill, nobody was ready to end the party. Our small gathering bubbled with excitement as we celebrated our emergence from lockdown with after-work drinks in the backyard.

Outdoor fireplaces long have brought the heat and light needed to make a deck or patio a warm, inviting place for family and friends to gather. In recent years, design aesthetics have moved away from ...

WHEN JACK LIEBERUM bought his “eccentric” old Berkeley house, he inherited four wood-burning fireplaces. “I never expected to convert all of them to gas,” Lieberum says. “I had my trusty ax and I didn ...

Two questions for the ages: Coke or Pepsi? Wood-burning fireplace or natural-gas fireplace? While the former conundrum undoubtedly will be debated forever, the latter question pretty much has been ...