Sharing a few secrets on how to give your fireplace a summer makeover today on The Washington Post site.

Bringing summer to your fireplace could be as simple as putting away your tool set and wood holder. Just looking at that stuff can make you feel hot. Or you could cook up a new look for the focal point of your living room.

Whether you’ve got a wood-burning or gas fireplace, you’ve got three areas to decorate, or not: the mantel, the hearth and inside that big hole where the logs go.