10 Amazing Electric Fireplaces With Changing Flame Color

Amantii, Modern Flames, Dimplex, Touchstone and Remii all build color-changing flames into their current lines. Amantii introduced the feature in its Fire & Ice collection, and every model it has released since 2016 carries it.

With the remote or the touch panel on the unit. Most models cycle through preset colors on a single button, and the better ones let you set flame color and brightness separately.

Set to orange they read as fire. Set to blue or violet they read as decoration, which is the point of the feature. Judge any flame on video or in person rather than from a still photo, because a still flatters every unit.

No. The flame effect and the heater run independently, so you can leave a color on year round and switch the heater on only when you want warmth.

Yes, on every model listed here. That is how most people run them in summer, and it is why a color-changing fireplace works as ambient lighting rather than a seasonal appliance.

Color is a lighting setting. Virtual describes how the flame image is made: a virtual fireplace plays a recording of a real fire on a screen, while an LED flame effect synthesizes the flame out of light. Either one can change color.