We have recently purchased a new construction home, we did not design it, but we loved everything about it BUT the Electric Fireplace. We would like to change it out and have been doing a lot of research about Alcohol Burning fireplaces, does anyone have any experience with these?

In theory, I think we should be able to take the existing "firebox" and electrical components out and replace it with a Alcohol Burning Firebox the same size... then viola... real flames not more cheesy plastic waving with a fan.

I think that this would be a much better alternative to installing a real chimney, flue, etc... there is a beautiful mantle with built in cabinets around both side (floor to ceiling) so we want to do as little "reconstruction" to that area as possible.

Any suggestions?

They work fine, they also have some of the new "electronic" not fan but it is a projection and to be honest it looked so real I was surprised