ELECTRIC??? That's the MOST expensive way to go. If you just want the entertainment of a fire then I guess it's fine. But if you're looking for anything else like heat.... OUCH. Do a Google for electric fireplaces and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. Up here electricity is VERY expensive at almost 15 cents per KWH. And power failures can come during a blizzard. So we have a real fire.

The installation manual for each fireplace will discuss the trim. In almost all cases there are trims available from the manufacturer to provide a finished look. There should also be a description of how you can create your own optional trim to accomplish the look you desire. Custom made trim kits are also available in a variety of materials. Our company provides custom made metal surround trims.

Great inspiration photo. We are about to finish a basement. Originally wanted to do a vented gas fireplace but not able to with layout and cumbersome venting to outside. Few questions if you don’t mind. How do you like the electric fireplace? What kind is it? Do you use it for secondary heat in basement and if so, how does it do heating your space? We are looking to do something extremely similar to your design / bump out.

We put in a linear fireplace. I cut and pasted the one I liked into a picture of the existing one at scale. Did the same for the TV, pasted it in at scale. Due to a pre-existing hearth we have it about 12.5" off the floor (1 ft of hearth and .5" of wall). It is about the same height fireplace as yours (19.63"). First we installed a 77" TV 12" above that. But we didn't like the 77" TV we bought as it was hard to use so we returned it and got a 65". The reason we switched size is the 77" was very large to mount and dismount. We had to hire people. The 65" seemed like it would be enough and was alot easier to handle. We also had moved the sofa further back because the TV was so large. With the 65" we were able to move it back to where we had it which suited the room layout better. We used the same TV hangers for both and the 65" is now 10" above the linear fireplace. It works OK because I have progressive lenses and had started to bend my head to see through the tops for our old lower tv but I wouldn't mind it about 6" lower. We chose a 48" wide linear electric. Our old wood burning fireplace was 48" wide so that made pasting into the picture at scale easy. Also I didn't like any of the pictures where the linear electric was wider than the TV. I very much like the TV being wider than the fireplace.