The hearth is often considered the heart of the home, and you can ramp up that feeling by creating your own custom hearth ...

With the price of home heating fuel uncertain, homeowners who have fireplaces may want to use their hearths to supplement their heating system. But while an old-fashioned open-hearth fire might ...

There’s no heat like wood heat. Talk to people who have wood-burning stoves and that’s what you’ll hear time and again. “It’s comfortable heat,” says Bert Beatty of Paxico, Kan. “It warms your bones.” ...

I bought my home in the North Bay because I fell in love with its bright, airy living room, big windows and view across the hills. In my infatuation, I hardly noticed that it had no fireplace. But ...

With the price of home heating fuel uncertain, homeowners who have fireplaces may be tempted to use their hearths to supplement their heating system. But while an old-fashioned open-hearth fire might ...

KABUL – When snow covers the mountains north of Kabul and temperatures drop below freezing, many residents of Afghanistan’s capital rely on their bukhari stoves to heat their homes. The stoves burn ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where there’s smoke there’s ire. This week the UK’s department for the environment warned on worsening air ...