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Fireplaces in condominiums/apartments/flats
They take up lots of space and are really, really useless.
Why do people want them?
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They're nice?
How?
How are they nice when you could better use the space by (1) not having something bulging out into the middle of the room, (2) have more open space to put furniture, and (3) not have to worry about the heat coming from it being bad for various materials including leather and wood?
They're generally just big decorations used to make the apartment look classier than it really is.
They look nice? Also fire. Everyone loves fire.You're asking me to sacrifice a large amount of usable space in order to have a large, clunky, immovable, awkwardly-placed object that merely "looks good", when I have well less than a thousand square feet to work with?
...I won't ever understand why people find these things "classy".
I'm also annoyed that, as a consumer, I have to pay for a feature that I don't want and won't use only because it is considered to have market value and no one builds newer units without it.
Also, in the "supposedly classy but mostly a useless waste of space" department: expensive wineglasses and stuff that you'd only ever use once or twice a lifetime.
People like burning things.
Fires are nice to have. 'specially in winter.
If functional: Fires are nice, brings the room together, and so forth.
If not: No idea.
If it's a relatively small gas fireplace, I don't see the harm...
(We converted one of our fireplaces to gas. It's the only one we even actually use. Then again, we hardly live in a condo. Fun fact: I live in what was our house's original master bedroom before an addition was made a few years later [we're talking 80's, years before I was born], and in addition to it being huge, there's a fireplace. I stick random stuff in it and will for sure never actually use it.)