Is Modern Flames a good electric fireplace brand?
Yes — Modern Flames is a well-regarded electric fireplace brand out of Phoenix, Arizona, known for realistic linear flames and helping popularize the modern built-in electric look. In our showroom we display Dimplex, which we consider the most convincing electric flame on the market, but Modern Flames is a legitimate premium option.
Where Modern Flames fits
Modern Flames was early to the sleek, linear look you now see everywhere, and its units are solid — the flame effects are convincing, and they install cleanly with no gas line, no venting, and no chimney. That simplicity is the whole appeal of electric: flame at the flip of a switch, and in summer many run flame-only with the heat off. It's a real brand, not a big-box throwaway.
The honest limits of any electric fireplace
Here's what we tell every customer, whatever the brand: an electric fireplace is supplemental heat — figure roughly 5,000 BTU, enough to take the chill off a room up to about 400 square feet, not to heat a house. And the hard truth for our region: electric goes dead the moment the power does. After Helene left WNC without power for days, that matters. If backup heat is the goal, you want gas or wood, not electric. If you want clean, safe, low-fuss ambiance in a bedroom, condo, or media wall, electric is perfect.
What we carry and how we install
For electric we carry Dimplex — its flame technology is the most lifelike we've seen, and it backs the line well. We install electric fireplaces as wall-mount, recessed, or fully built-in units. Plug-in models are simple; a hard-wired, built-in install may need an electrician, which we coordinate — we handle the hearth and fire side, not standalone electrical. Come see a Dimplex burning in our Asheville showroom before you decide. Call (828) 545-0525.
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