It can be hard to decide what fireplace to purchase when you start looking for the perfect fit. Some designers prefer to find the perfect fireplace and work their way out. Other designers like to create the look and feel they are going for, then cherry pick the best fireplace for that space. Sometimes you are stuck with the space you have and want a fireplace to breathe new life into the room. There is no wrong approach to shopping for a new fireplace, especially with all the options available. The hardest thing can be narrowing down the many different options. Many designers and homeowners are drawn to the modern and contemporary looks offered in many of today’s fireplace designs. Others prefer a more traditional wood-burning fireplace appearance. Luckily, with the industries' large selection of designs and styles, we have many varieties of both contemporary and traditional to choose from. Traditional log gas fireplaces When looking at traditional gas fireplaces, with logs and embers, there are a few things you want to look at. Most logs are going to be ceramic fiber, cement, or a combination of the two. Ceramic style like Napoleon’s PHAZER logs offer a realistic ember like glow where the flame touches them, giving a very realistic appearance. Cement logs offer the most detail and often most realistic logs. The trade off for the extra detail costs you that beautiful glowing ember effect though. Most companies offer ceramic fiber logs as technology has improved. Some are even coming out with ceramic and cement hybrid logs with the best of both worlds. Napoleon's PHAZER log set Some of the best-looking logs on the fireplace market right now are offered by Napoleon [...]