Gas fireplace.

In my childhood home, my parents installed a gas fireplace where the old wood fireplace was, since it's getting too hard for them to maintain a woodpile and start fires, but they still like having the extra heat in the living room, especially because they get so cold now.

And, it's super realistic, where the flames flare up and it looks like a real pile of wood and everything, even though it's just gas flames and what looks like the logs isn't wood and doesn't burn up at all and never changes.

It reminded me a lot of how ancient Greek temples would carry over details of wooden pegs from wooden temple construction into temples made of stone, or how the Egyptians would replicate woven mat wall structure details on the walls of their temples now made of stone.

It's like you want your current shit to look like your last shit, even if it technically doesn't have to look that way anymore.