3-Sided Gas Fireplace: Double Corner (Bay)

What Makes a Three-Sided Fireplace Different

A three-sided fireplace — also called a bay fireplace — carries one continuous flame across three open glass faces, so the fire reads from the front and from both sides at once. Where a flat fireplace serves a single seating area, a three-sided gas fireplace anchors an open plan: visible from the kitchen, the dining area and the main seating zone at the same time. Flare builds the Double Corner in lengths from 30″ to 100″, in three glass heights, with black diamonds, glowing embers or driftwood logs.

An open corner with nothing running through it

This is the difference that never shows up in a specification table. Every multi-sided fireplace has to resolve the open corner where two glass faces meet, and that resolution is normally a metal post or bracket — a vertical line drawn straight through the middle of the flame. The Flare Double Corner is frameless: glass meets glass at the corner, with no visible metal frame, post or bracket interrupting the view. From across the room the fire reads as one continuous body of flame wrapping the bay, rather than three separate windows set into a surround.

Cool Touch Wall, on three exposed faces

With flame open on three sides, what happens to the heat around the fireplace matters more, not less. Flare’s Cool Touch Wall keeps the wall above the fireplace relatively cool, so a television or an art piece can be mounted closer to the glass than a traditional fireplace allows, when installed according to Flare’s installation manual, heat release requirements and project-specific specifications.

Bay or peninsula?

The Double Corner is a bay: it sits into the corner of a room with the flame wrapping three faces. If the fireplace instead needs to stand free and divide the room, that is the Room Definer, Flare’s three-sided peninsula. Both are three-sided; they differ in where they sit, not in how many faces of flame you get.