Electric fireplace inserts are designed to go into your existing open fireplace and covert it from another form of fireplace, such as wood burning, into electric.

An electric fireplace insert is designed to cover the entire opening of an open fireplace. If the unit is too small then a surround can be used to bridge the gap between the electric fireplace insert and the edge of the fireplace opening.

You won’t be able to paint the actual electric fireplace insert but you can potentially paint the surround for the open fireplace.

We recently renovated our kitchen and removed the old gas insert from the open fireplace. We’re currently looking to find the best electric fireplace insert for our kitchen fireplace, but we’ve taken off the surround and are thinking off painting it white to match the new white color of our kitchen walls.

Fireplace surrounds aren’t typically too hard to remove (we show you how to remove a fireplace surround here) as they can usually be found to be hollow.

We’ll simply need to sand this surround down and paint it to make our open fireplace look much nicer than before.

Electric fireplaces typically come in a black color, although like our electric fireplace stove, you can find some that come in different colors such as white.

Electric fireplace units themselves can’t typically be painted and so look for ways to be able to paint the furniture around it, whether it’s a surround, mantel or TV stand.

As electric fireplaces generally come in black, you can paint the furniture encasing it in a color that will compliment the black color of the fireplace.

We like the look of the black of an electric fireplace against the white of fireplace surround, and so for our kitchen electric fireplace this is the look that we’re going to go for.