Napoleon: Astound Built-in NEFB50AB

A convincing fire on any wall in the house—no chimney, no gas line, and a look you can change with the seasons.

Quick Facts

• Heating Capacity: 250–500 sq ft
• Fuel: Electric.
• Controls: Remote with thermostat included; Napoleon Home app and Google Home or Alexa voice control.
• Fan: Included

Who It’s For

Some rooms were never built for a fire—no chimney, no gas line, nowhere to run a vent. And most built-in fireplaces commit you to one look for the next twenty years. You need a fireplace that installs where a chimney can’t and changes when your décor does. If you want the fire to be the focal point of a living room, den, or bedroom—and you’d like to restyle it for the holidays as easily as the mantel above it—the Astound Built-In goes on any wall with electricity and never asks you to settle on one look. Count on it to warm the room it’s in while the furnace holds the rest of the house.

What Makes It Special

The glass front flips down, so changing the fire’s look takes minutes, not a service call. Swap the logs, beads, or crystals the way you swap throw pillows—birch logs for December, blue glass beads for summer, black crystals when the room goes modern. It’s the rare fireplace you can redecorate along with the room it anchors.

The upgraded orange and yellow flames carry spark effects that mimic a real wood fire, behind tinted glass that keeps them vivid even in a bright, sunlit room. The angled front glass projects heat out at you rather than up the wall, and the remote’s thermostat holds the room at the temperature you set. From your phone, the Napoleon Home app saves your favorite settings and runs a schedule; Google Home or Alexa handles it by voice, even when you’re not home.

Possible Downsides

• It warms one room, not the house—treat it as comfort heat for the space it’s in.
• Full heat output requires hardwiring at 240 volts; on a standard 120-volt connection it delivers half the heat.
• The birch logs, mineral rocks, glass beads, and black crystals are optional kits; the driftwood log set is the standard media.

If you want a fire on a wall that could never take a chimney, and a fireplace you can restyle as easily as the room around it, the Astound Built-In is the right decision. The room you put it in becomes the one everyone ends up in.

The Astound Built-In takes a birch log kit, mineral rocks, black crystals, and glass beads in amber, black, blue, clear, or topaz; flames run yellow, orange, or combined; an adjustable finishing trim is included for a frameless or framed look, and an optional wall mount controller keeps the controls in one place.