Fireplaces A HotIdea (NAPSA)—Whenlooking for a way to add little pizazz to the living room, family room or den, it may pay to fire up your imagination. A well-maintained or spruced-up fireplace can add warmth—figuratively and literally—to most any home. Fireplaces can add comfort, warmth andstyle to a room. Today, many products for the hearth—including dampers, fire tools, fire screens, the hardware on glass hearth doors, cinder buckets and log stands—keep their shine and last longer because they have undergone a process called powdercoating. Powder coating is a finishing method whereby finely ground particles of pigment and resin are electrostatically charged and sprayed onto a surface. Hearth products that have the coating are highly resistant to scratching, chipping, fading and wearing. Fireplaces, however, aren’t the only things to benefit from powder coating. Fire extinguishers are coated as well. For more information and a free “Consumer Buying Guide for Home and Garden,” visit the Web site at www.powdercoating.org/302 or write The Powder Coating Institute at 2121 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 401, Alexandria, VA 22314.
