A warm, flickering flame from a fireplace provides a calming, inviting ambience to all those around, especially on colder winter nights. However, maintaining that fire takes work and quality tools.

Back in the day, bellows were made from animal skin, and even today, you can find fireplace bellows made of leather. Usually, bellows have wooden handles with an expandable leather (or another ...

In past centuries, fireplace tools consisted of a poker and tongs to rearrange burning logs, a small shovel to remove ashes, perhaps a whisk broom to sweep up leftover fuel and ashes, and a bellows to ...