The Center of the Living Room

In many homes the center of the living room tends to be the TV. It is a natural choice because most of us like watching TV and movies for that matter. However, have you ever thought about hiding the TV in the cabinet? Or if there is the possibility, placing it in a separate entertainment room? I think each one of us should give it a thought and consider whether the TV should be the center of the room, and if not, then what other options we have.

I have noticed that in many people’s homes the center of the living room is the TV and every time the family gathers together they watch TV. The same goes when the guests arrive, too often the TV is on even then. I can’t believe it to be good for socializing. So, I have given this a thought for I want some real family time and interaction with the people I love, not the TV. I came across many good options for making the TV a secondary past time. My first step was to buy a cabinet where one could fit not only the TV but also the gaming centers and all the DVDs, which is quite handy. Almost every furniture store has this type of cabinets so I am sure everyone can find one that suits his or her interior design. The second step was a bit trickier because I needed something else as the focal point in the living room. I was thinking about some big flower vase, decorative lamp and many others, but none of these really inspired me. At last, while I was watching a movie, I got it (thanks to one scene in a movie): a Uunisepät fireplace! That would be the centerpiece of my living room. It works as an impressive centerpiece but at the same time it doesn’t take all the attention away from socializing. A perfect solution.

Now, one month later I have the cabinet for my TV that I can close when the TV is not in use and a beautiful white fireplace on its way. I absolutely can’t wait to spend some quality time with my family sipping on some hot chocolate in front of a flickering Uunisepät fireplace.

Home for a Fireplace

Have you been to a home that has an inviting living room with a cozy fireplace? Or have you awed at a fireplace scene in a Christmas movie where all of the family is gathered around a fireplace drinking some hot chocolate? Well, I have, and not just once. It is even funny how a fireplace can make such a difference to the atmosphere. I decided that in few months when I start to look for an apartment to buy, I will definitely choose one with a fireplace. It is just something that I have been dreaming of since I was a child.

Now that I am strongly of the opinion that my next home will have a fireplace, I have started to browse for different fireplace options and fireplace accessories. I want to know everything about fireplaces and what accessories one can get. I have been surfing on the net quite a lot, to be honest, and I have found amazing options and ideas. A website that I visit particularly often is www.uunisepat.fi. The reason for this is that they have more than thirty different fireplace models and you can stylize the chosen fireplace with desirable stone tiles and fireplace doors, to mention but a few.

In order to find out about the costs and the whole process I decided to call the store but as I was talking to one of the sales assistants at Uunisepät, I realized that it would be so much nicer to actually go to the store and see all the materials live. And so I went to one of the Uunisepät stores, which I am really happy about. It was a great and very informative experience. I was told about different outer-materials and accessory options. Also, the expert at Uunisepät showed me the mechanisms of Uunisepät fireplaces and I was happy to hear that the fireplaces are heat preserving and help to cut down the heating costs.

It definitely pays off to visit a store after some Internet research. I now know which fireplace exactly I want and what are the steps of acquiring it. I truly can’t wait to find the perfect home to fit my perfect fireplace-to-be.

Fireplace solutions

A fireplace is the kind of an element that is usually considered as the part of a living room. However, living room is not the only place where one can put a fireplace. New solutions and just rethinking the placement of a fireplace have convinced people to use other rooms of the house, too. Today’s rising trend is to place the fireplace in the bathroom. And when you really think about it, you do want to take a bath or be in the Jacuzzi in the warmth of a flickering fireplace.

Often the upgrading of the bathroom is limited to just painting the walls or changing the cabinets or the tiles. All those things might be even more laborious than installing a fireplace which is most often installed with the help of the experts, especially when friendly Uunisepät is in question. However, the things you have to keep in mind are whether there is a possibility for the fireplace to be installed and whether the bathroom has enough room for a fireplace. A good and practical solution would be to put the fireplace next to a Jacuzzi or a bathtub so that you can enjoy the warmth to the maximum and have something beautiful to look at while taking a bath. A fireplace is also a good place for some tall candles and if you like it romantic, you can put some rose petals in front of the fireplace. I have been searching for inspiration concerning how to make the fireplace even more like me and believe me, in addition to candles and roses, there are many other exciting options available.

So, if you want to make your bathroom more inviting and at the same time warmer, install a fireplace to upgrade the look and the feel. To find out more about the options you have concerning a fireplace in your bathroom, go to www.uunisepat.fi. There you can find the classics, the new arrivals, the trendy ones – anything to suit your bathroom. Contact the experts at Uunisepät to learn about your options. It surely helped me to decide whether or not a fireplace in the bathroom is an option for my family.

Is New Always Better?

My friend bought a house with her husband in order to start a family and have a home of their own to raise the children in. They were looking for the house for quite some time, for about two years. Finally they found a house not that far away from the city center, yet close to nature and the sea. The house was built in the 1980s and no inside renovation has been done after, so one can imagine that it wasn’t in a perfect condition. However, the price was more than suitable so my handy friends decided that they could fix the house up to make it perfect for themselves.

When engaging in such a big project, it is good to keep in mind that it will most probably take weeks or even months, not days. So, once my friends were finishing up the interior renovation, they had to make some decisions on which items to maintain with little fixing and which ones to replace with new ones. One item that they were pondering on was the fireplace. The original fireplace was more of a Swedish stove type – it didn’t have anything special to it and it was producing quite thick smoke, too. After thinking about it for a while they decided to tear down the fireplace and replace it with a new more environmentally friendly and economical fireplace.

It was actually me who advised them to go to www.uunisepat.fi website to see what kind of fireplaces are out there. They were excited to find out that there are so many options to choose from but at the same time a bit worried about the process and how time consuming it might be. Despite their concerns they decided to call Uunisepät and in two days they had an expert from Uunisepät coming over to their house to examine what kind of a fireplace could be installed and how much time it would take.

In about one month, my friends threw a house-warming party with cool drinks in the warmth of their fireplace. Sometimes new really is better than old.

Bringing The Family Together

In today’s world everyone is so busy with work, hobbies and friends, which is nice except that all this time is taken from family time. How many of us eat dinner every day with their family? Or have mutual hobbies? Often we see each other maybe in the morning when we go off to work or school and then randomly in the evening. A friend of mine wanted to put a stop to this and bring not only one family back together but many families. She came up with this great idea of organizing Marshmallow Grill Parties. At first, when I got the invitation (yes, she is a very detail loving person) I was a bit doubtful but I still convinced my family to go there.

At the Marshmallow Grill Party there were all in all three families: Laura’s (the organizer), mine and our mutual friend’s family. We gathered in the living room which was full of marshmallow bowls, tubes of caramel and chocolate sauce and chocolate fondue in which you could dip the marshmallows, and of course, on the stove she had real thick chocolate melted for the hot chocolates. Even the teenagers were impressed.

The thing was to grill the marshmallows in the fireplace which they had ordered from Uunisepät already a decade ago but which still looked brand-new. And oh boy, they turned out delicious! I think each one of us ate about thirty marshmallows dipped in chocolate and topped with whipped cream. The whole night was filled with joyful laughter and lively chat in front of the fireplace. Once it was time to go, our 15-year-old and 7-year-old said that we should do this kind of things more often – I couldn’t help smiling.

Looking back I am very grateful to Laura for this idea of gathering around the fireplace with marshmallows and hot chocolate to spend some family time with family and also friends. Since the party, we have consulted the experts at Uunisepät about different options of installing a fireplace in our house. We got some great pieces of advice and next week a salesperson from Uunisepät will come to our house to see what kind of a family fireplace we could install in our home. Can’t wait!.

Fireplace Accessories

A week ago I moved into a new apartment. So far it has been great although quite time-consuming and energy draining. I can’t wait to get all the furniture and my belongings in the right places so I can actually start living in my new apartment instead of trying to figure out how the furniture pieces are put together and stressing about whether or not the neighbors are angry at me for hammering the nails into the wall at 8pm. What I am really looking forward to is inviting friends over for a housewarming party. However, the list of guests is the only thing that is ready concerning the housewarming. I still have no idea what to cook and where to go to continue the night. Now that most furniture is assembled and some decorative elements are in place, I have started to answer my friends’, and my own, questions about the housewarming.

Once everything was somewhat in order I went online to have a look at the recipe websites, which are surprisingly quite many. Luckily, I managed to find recipes for all kinds of small snacks, such as spring rolls and caramelized popcorn. I also decided on a nice, intimate wine bar where we could all go after 10pm, since from 10pm onwards no noise is welcomed in our building, which is of course understandable.

After all this my friends still had one question: what would I prefer as a housewarming gift. That I didn’t have to think about long because I didn’t want anything useless or pointless so I knew the answer for this question. I wrote my friends that their company is the best gift but if they insist on bringing something I would like to have accessories for my fireplace – and I have never had a fireplace until I moved into this apartment. My friends were a bit clueless where to buy such things so I directed them to Uunisepät. I wasn’t scared to make them go to Uunisepät as newbies without any prior knowledge about fireplace accessories because I myself got excellent service there when I went there to ask how to take care of the fireplace - and I went there as a newbie myself.

Bringing The Family Together

In today’s world everyone is so busy with work, hobbies and friends, which is nice except that all this time is taken from family time. How many of us eat dinner every day with their family? Or have mutual hobbies? Often we see each other maybe in the morning when we go off to work or school and then randomly in the evening. A friend of mine wanted to put a stop to this and bring not only one family back together but many families. She came up with this great idea of organizing Marshmallow Grill Parties. At first, when I got the invitation (yes, she is a very detail loving person) I was a bit doubtful but I still convinced my family to go there.

At the Marshmallow Grill Party there were all in all three families: Laura’s (the organizer), mine and our mutual friend’s family. We gathered in the living room which was full of marshmallow bowls, tubes of caramel and chocolate sauce and chocolate fondue in which you could dip the marshmallows, and of course, on the stove she had real thick chocolate melted for the hot chocolates. Even the teenagers were impressed.

The thing was to grill the marshmallows in the fireplace which they had ordered from Uunisepät already a decade ago but which still looked brand-new. And oh boy, they turned out delicious! I think each one of us ate about thirty marshmallows dipped in chocolate and topped with whipped cream. The whole night was filled with joyful laughter and lively chat in front of the fireplace. Once it was time to go, our 15-year-old and 7-year-old said that we should do this kind of things more often – I couldn’t help smiling.

Looking back I am very grateful to Laura for this idea of gathering around the fireplace with marshmallows and hot chocolate to spend some family time with family and also friends. Since the party, we have consulted the experts at Uunisepät about different options of installing a fireplace in our house. We got some great pieces of advice and next week a salesperson from Uunisepät will come to our house to see what kind of a family fireplace we could install in our home. Can’t wait!

The New Trend of Decorative Fireplaces

Today I visited a large department store. I was browsing the home section because I just moved into a new apartment and I have to decorate it from the scratch. It is very enjoyable to look for things that will make your home feel cozy, welcoming and at the same time stylish, too. For me the most important things is to make home feel and look like me so that my home reflects and portrays my personality. I found amazing blankets and decorative pillows – those really big ones that you can even throw on the floor and sit on while eating Japanese style dinner. Also, good lighting system is really important for coziness and comfort. I was lucky to find a floor lamp which reaches over the couch and then few smaller ones to put on the shelves and tables. While I was filling the basket with different things I bumped into decorative fireplaces – never seen those before! There were few models but all of them were quite small, the biggest one was about 100 cm wide and 50 centimeters high.

Intrigued, I asked the salesperson about these decorative fireplaces. Apparently they work on gas and do not provide any heat. So they really are purely for decorative purpose only. They could be a good solution if you have little space in your home. However, when I asked about the price I was quite surprised for the price for this little non-heating decorative element was only half of what I paid for the Uunisepät authentic stone fireplace that was recently installed in my new apartment. Of course, you can’t get a real fireplace from your local department store but when you get the fireplace from Uunisepät you can be sure to receive the best customer service and a fireplace that will serve you and your family for decades.

I left the store a bit bedazzled but happy about the fact that I can go and enjoy the beautiful fireplace that is not only there for decorative purpose but also keeps me and my family warm.

Unforgettable Childhood Moments

One of the most memorable childhood memories of mine revolves around the time when I was little and I was always looking forward to going to our cottage located in the central part of Finland. It was so much fun there and there were always so many things to do. However, the best part was that at the cottage all of the family was gathered together. We were spending time not like at home but truly together without the distraction of TV or computers. It was great to go swimming in the lake, after that enjoy the moist heat of the sauna, and then once it started to get dark go inside and gather together in the living room to play some board games. My favorite moment was when we laid down the Monopoly board on this low coffee table of ours, made some hot chocolate with marshmallows and started playing in front of this flickering fire and in the warmth that our fireplace provided.

I have decided that I want to offer my family the same kind of memories that I have. And I love it that it is not about spending thousands or just buying material things in order to get these wonderful memories. To be able to provide these memories for my family, I decided to act and start building the future based on my experiences as a child. Our current cottage is quite developed as in it is not as rural as my childhood cottage was. In order to bring the rural feel to it, I decided to find out about the options of building a separate sauna and installing a fireplace. Building a sauna was trickier and I am still trying to figure out the details of how to execute it, but with the fireplace everything turned out to be easier.

When I started looking for a fireplace, our family friend mentioned Uunisepät because they had gotten great service there. So, I went straight there and truly got very friendly and knowledgeable service. In no time, I had been shown about thirty fireplace options and got a lot of useful information on how to actually do it and how the whole process is going to proceed. I am so happy to start going through the different fireplace models with my partner. Thank you experts at Uunisepät!

Buying an Apartment, Buying a Home

For the last six months, I have been looking for an apartment to buy. The main reason for this is that it does pay off and in the end you are investing in yourself, not just pointlessly paying the rent money to someone else.

However, finding a suitable property to buy is definitely not easy. After surviving the jungle of tens and tens of apartments, I found the one. It actually was my cousin’s apartment that he and his wife wanted to sell in order to buy a bigger one. The apartment is in no way big – it is a one bedroom with an open concept kitchen combined with the living room in need of some renovations.

Before getting into any serious apartment buying, I decided to figure out things with the bank and take a look at different options of how I could raise the value of the apartment with some minor changes. So, when I was in the bank discussing the loan, we also covered the possible renovation expenses. I’m on a budget so I wasn’t looking for any big changes such as redoing the kitchen or the bathroom. We decided on a fresh coat of paint, some feature walls, a new cooker hood, a modular wardrobe and then on redoing the fireplace which at the moment was a very simple Swedish stove. I was first a bit dubious about the costs of installing a new fireplace. I went to different stores but got the best service at Uunisepät and after going through some facts about installing a fireplace, I was surprised to find out that the cost and quality ratio of fireplaces is more than attractive. By paying a bit more for my renovation, I would get a heart to my home and at the same time raise the value of the apartment.

Now I’m discussing the mortgage with my bank and deciding whether or not I’m ready to commit myself to buying my own apartment. The idea of it is so appealing but I do realize that it is a huge thing to buy your first apartment. However, I’m happy to know that if I do decide on buying the apartment, I have the right tools and elements to make it my home – thanks to Uunisepät.

From the Idea to the Realization

The winter is knocking on our doors and we tend to seek for warmth and comfort. How about spending a Friday night relaxing with your family members in front of a fireplace having a cup of hot chocolate and maybe even grilling some marshmallows in the fireplace? If you enjoy these kinds of moments and the relaxing touch that a fireplace brings, don’t deny yourself the pleasure.

Uunisepät fireplaces are easy to realize and install once you get inspired with the idea of having a fireplace in your home. If you are not sure whether your home is suitable for a fireplace check if you have a fireplace flue, or a throat, which makes it possible for the smoke to exit. Once you have established that you have the flue, you can either visit a Uunisepät store or schedule a Uunisepät expert to come to your home and see what type of a fireplace would suit your home. The visit can easily be scheduled through the internet site (www.uunisepat.com/support/contact) and it is free of charge.

Some of the concerns when getting a fireplace might concern the design and whether or not there is a fireplace that will suit the current wallpaper, floor and the interior design in general. Uunisepät has given this a good thought and offer a wide selection of different materials and designs. Whether you have a bright and minimalistic interior design or a luscious and cozy country-style home, you will find a suitable fireplace. The great thing is that you can design the fireplace from the scratch and have exactly the kind of a fireplace that you and your family want. You can decide on the stone, the surface material, the fireplace doors – you can even choose 24 carat gold-plated doors if you like. Even when it comes to the fireplace flue, you have two options to choose from. If you are not sure what you should choose or what design to go for, the experts at Uunisepät will guide you through every step making sure every aspect of the project is planned well and the result is the best it can be.

So, do not hesitate to contact the experts at Uunisepät and make sure that you and your family spend this winter in the comfort and warmth of your own fireplace.

The Element That Makes the Home

I have visited quite many homes, as probably most us have. In some homes you really feel like at home, in some not so much. What is it that makes this difference in atmosphere? Some of it can be assigned to the owners and how they greet and welcome you to their home. Then of course there is the factor of cleanliness, orderliness and interior design. Some homes make you awe.

The most impressive homes I have been to are located in Switzerland. One home that made a great impression on me was this 800-square-meter house which was located on the Geneva lake. It had an inside pool that continued outside, its own recording studio, a gym and probably 10 bedrooms. However, the room I personally liked the most was the lounge room where the family often spend time together reading, playing board games and enjoying each other’s company. The element that made the room so attractive was the fireplace which was located in such a way that the whole room and interior design was built around it. The fireplace was built to be the heart and soul of the room and no matter how big the rest of the house was, this was the place where you wanted to spend your time doing miscellaneous things.

About a week ago I went to a house-warming party. It was a 40-square-meter apartment in Helsinki, so a small one bedroom home with a kitchen and a living room. I stepped in and experienced the same kind of warmth and coziness I felt when visiting the 20 times bigger home near Geneva. Alike, all of the guests celebrating the new home were gathered around a fireplace chatting casually and laughing together. Yet, the fireplace was not only the heating element in the room, it was also a part of the interior design.

I truly hope the next home I will be living in will have a fire place so I can have the same kind of warmth and coziness that I have experienced in these two homes. And I am so pleased that I have found so many lovely options on the Uunisepät website so that I can design my very own fireplace with my touch in design.

The Charm of a Fireplace

To own a fireplace means much more than just having it for heat purposes. In today’s world fireplaces are also a design factor in your home. Uunisepät fireplaces add the style and coziness in addition to the soft heat they produce.

Everyone probably knows what a difference a fireplace adds to a home. It is the heat, the smell of forest when the wood is burning, the crackling sound and, of course, the hypnotizing flames dancing. All these things make a fireplace a perfect addition to your home, not forgetting about the prestige and allure a Uunisepät fireplace gives your home. Uunisepät is the Finnish expert on quality fireplaces that make home really feel like home and gather family members around the fireplace to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate.

However, when investing in a fireplace, it is utterly important to choose a fireplace that is made of durable quality materials which won’t decay or wear out. Uunisepät uses only the best of materials that will serve you and your family for years to come showing off the natural beauty of the stone. Also the design of the flue, or the throat of the fireplace, has been given a serious thought and it has been designed to be not only safe but also heat preserving.

The best thing is that you can design the fireplace to your liking. There are several options for stones, tiles and clinkers that you can choose from, not forgetting about the details like fireplace doors. Uunisepät cares about their customers, which means that you will be helped from the very beginning of having the idea of a fireplace until the fireplace is installed in your home. All you have to know is what type of a fireplace pleases your eyes.

So, once you got the idea of having a fireplace in your home, you can either visit a Uunisepät store or reserve a time through the internet in order to have a Uunisepät specialist come and visit your home and see about your options to have a fireplace installed. It really is that easy!