Today's modern fireplace is the heart and centre of the home, bringing families together as a focus for warmth, cheerfulness and comfort. Style, design, convenience and efficiency are all important considerations as well to create a home. For those reasons a great deal of attention has been given to providing a number of high performance nanotechnology thin coatings to enhance and emphasize key performance and design features - inorganic oxide-based coatings which are stable at operating fireplace and stove temperatures.