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Electric Fireplace With Mantel [ Definitive Review 2021 ]


Wall mounted electric fireplaces are a subset of a much larger category of electric fireplaces. When choosing an electric fireplace for your home you have many styles and designs available like wall hanging units that are often very long and can take up many feet of your wall horizontally, as well as TV mantel style fireplaces that will allow you to put your television on top, and your audio video electronics on either side like extremely convenient to use storage areas.

However this blog post is not going to go into those types of electric fireplaces. Instead we’re going to focus on wall mantel electric fireplaces and how it can help to transform your home by become your living room or bedroom’s focal point. By the end of this article we will have talked about what’s the best wall mantel electric fireplace of 2018 and why we believe that with data to back-up everything we say.

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What is a Wall Mantel Electric Fireplace?

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Let’s Begin by talking about what exactly a wall mounted electric fireplace is. Unlike the other types of electric fireplaces we discussed about above a wall mantel electric fireplace sits on your floor pretty much anywhere you want in your home and generally goes right up against a wall. Usually a homeowner will choose a wall with an electrical outlet pre-installed so that they can plug in their electric fireplace insert directly into 110 volt power source which can power the electric fireplace, as well as the heater, and other vital Electronics like LED lights.

The nice thing is wall mount electric fireplaces can go absolutely in any room of your home, they’re fairly inexpensive and easy to put together. We’ve even seen people put wall mantel electric fireplaces in their bathroom to warm them up as they’re getting out of the shower or even as a romantic centerpiece in a upscale a bedroom. Replacement possibilities with wall mantel electric fireplaces are virtually endless as long as you have the space for them.

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What Advantages are There to Owning An Electric Fireplace?

So you might be asking yourself by now what are the advantages to owning an electric fireplace? Well there’s a lot of advantages to owning an electric fireplace. For instance and probably the biggest deal is the fact that they’re easy to use. There’s no need to store wood, or even gas because electric fireplaces operate solely on electricity and that’s all. Another great thing about electric fireplaces is the fact that they run extremely clean. Because they’re not burning wood they are not filling your house with smoke and ashes that make a mess and is not healthy for your children to breathe.

A good electric fireplace will simulate beautiful flames but because it’s not real it won’t make a mess at all. Your home will have cleaner air, and you’ll have much less mess with an electric fireplace. Not to mention there’s no chance of burning yourself, or having one of your loved ones scald themselves because it doesn’t get really hot and of course there’s no danger of burning down your dwelling because it’s all fake fire.

How Easy Are Wall Mounted Electric Fireplaces to Use?

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Now we’re going to start speaking about a specific brand so that we can really get down to brass tax. For the rest of this article we’re going to be referring specifically to the MagikFlame HoloFlame electric fireplace wall mantel new for 2018. The MagikFlame HoloFlame is probably the easiest electric fireplace I’ve ever used in my entire life. And the reason behind that is due to the innovative way that MagikFlame HoloFlame has its user controls setup.

I’ve never before seen a wall mantel electric fireplace that has a touchscreen actually built into it. For those of you that don’t know a touch screen is the same thing that’s in your smartphone that you carry around everyday. But these guys over at MagikFlame figured out an awesome way of using that same type of touchscreen technology to actually control all the features of your electric fireplace.

For instance you can change the flames to any that you like, or even adjust the sound up or down and of course the heater can be controlled to make your room to a comfortable temperature. The fact that you don’t have to look around your house to try to find the remote control is a huge advantage to having a built-in touchscreen the fact that it lights up bright in a dark room and you don’t have to squint at those tiny buttons on remote controller to figure out how to use it is a big plus in our book. It’s all very intuitive and just make sense.

Kind of how you would naturally do things. You don’t have to think about it. Just do what feels natural and you got the understandings of the basic controls. The MagikFlame HoloFlame wall mantel fireplace is the easiest to use we ever tested.

Which Electric Fireplace Has the Most Realistic Flames?

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The hands-down winner when it comes to the most realistic flames is without a doubt the MagikFlame HoloFlame electric fireplace. The reason for this is simple. Pretty much all other electric fireplaces use some sort of simulated fire effect to try to make a fire that looks real. Many of those fireplaces are using a system of lights reflecting off a spindle onto a screen that displays something that kinda looks like fire but not really and only from a mile away.

It’s because most other fireplaces makers seem to rely heavily on a mechanical effect that’s creating fake fire, and even the best ones don’t create realistic-looking flames. They’re all extremely fake looking but that’s not the case with the MagikFlame because it uses a completely different technology to make the most realistic flames we’ve ever seen. Seriously the flames on this thing are a sight to behold and look way better in person than in photos even because of how their technology works different.

We had to really do quite a bit of research and really dissect the HoloFlame electric fireplace to understand what was making it so realistic. Well the first thing we found is that it’s using actual video footage that they shot of real fires rather than trying to simulate a fire with some sort of mechanical effect.

So the really cool thing about when you film an actual fire is that you get a fire that looks extremely realistic because it blows in the wind like a fireplace would, it even has smoke that’s coming up off of the logs, and it’s some of the flames even have burning embers like chunks of heated wood that are flying up in the air glowing red and cooling down and fading away. You would never see those types of subtle effects on any other electric fireplace but because this one is using videos of fires it looks extremely realistic because it’s actually starting with real flame footage and doing some Star Wars magic to make it look like the logs have fire on them just like a real fireplace would. It’s incredible…

They figured out this really cool way of making it look like your logs logs are actually blazing. You see your actual physical logs that sits inside of the electric fireplace insert which of course is inside the wall mantel, has these electric fireplace logs have built-in LCD lights that are controlled by a computer that kind of flicker red and various different kinds of orange. So it’s making your logs that look like it’s actually heated logs with burning and glowing embers.

Then they figured out this really cool technology for actually taking those flames that we talked about earlier that all came from real fire footage and actually project that in 3D right onto the log set that’s actually sitting there. So that physical log set that is sitting in the bottom of the insert actually appears to be burning with life like flames that are all reference from real video.

This HoloFlame wall mantel fireplace is so much more than just the screen with a fake fire behind the logs. It looks about as good as a real electric fireplace and even better because the one we tested has 26 flames you can choose from which is more than I ever dreamed possible when I started researching electric fireplaces. The other ones we’ve seen by other manufacturers have just a few flames and they’re just a few different colors. The MagikFlame is really a sight to behold when it comes to the most realistic wall mantel electric fireplace out there by a landslide.

What Other Features Does This Wall Mantel Electric Fireplace Have?

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When I start to talk about the features that the MagikFlame HoloFlame electric fireplace has I start to get giddy like a little kid. I mean this thing is literally like the dream fireplace come true. I mean these guys are just so far ahead of every other electric fireplace I can barely even believe the features that they’re offering for free.

To begin with all of their fires have sound which is a really big deal. A lot of the electric fireplaces on the market don’t have any sound or maybe they have tiny speakers that sound like absolute garbage. But apparently the quality of the speakers in the HoloFlame wall mantel electric fireplace an extremely high-quality so you hear every minute detail crystal clearly. I enjoyed endless hours of crackling and popping sound effects that just make this thing seem real. And of course with the built-in heater and the gorgeous visuals this fireplace just feels like the real thing and sometimes I have to pinch myself to realize I am looking at an illusion of fire.

The laundry list of features goes on and on with this thing. They even have something that they call ambient background nature sounds which I’ve never even heard of before with any other electric fireplace. Can you imagine that when you’re relaxing to this thing it actually can’t have the sound of relaxing crashing ocean waves to make it feel as if you’re at the beach, or even nature sounds to make it seem like you’re camping complete with birds chirping and frogs to make it feel like you’re in the great outdoors. They even have a rain and thunder setting that seems like there’s a huge rainstorm going on outside of your house and that combined with the warmness of the fire and the sound just makes it absolutely perfect to cuddle up to. It’s icing on the cake for an already great fireplace.

Conclusion: The Best Wall Mantel Electric Fireplace of 2021

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The best electric fireplace that we’ve ever seen hands down you should know by now is the new 2018 MagikFlame HoloFlame electric fireplace that’s available with two different wall mantel styles as well as a standalone insert for people to build their own wall mantels. This thing delivers consistently the most realistic flames we’ve ever seen on any electric fireplace complete with sound.

Their unique holographic technology actually makes this thing look just like a real fireplace because the logs themselves actually appear to burn powered by real video of real fire making it absolutely indistinguishable from an actual fireplace. It’s really a sight to behold and when you combine it with the sound that it puts out this thing is perfect for falling asleep in front of.

It’s easy to use with its intuitive built in touch screen and apparently this thing can even update itself automatically to get new features and new fires anytime they make a release. I’ve never seen any other electric fireplace maker that actually continues to add new features after you buy it and not try to charge you for them, but these guys give it to you for free just by downloading and installing their smartphone app. The MagikFlame really is the best wall mantel electric fireplace of 2018 and there’s no contest.

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