The DelRay is the fireplace Montigo® built for the way most modern rooms are actually drawn — not the show home with a wall to spare, but the real one, where the fire has to find its place inside a stud bay that already has work to do. It is a family rather than a single model: a long, low Linear and a more upright Square, each built around the same clean idea. A single sheet of glass, a frameless face, and a fire that sits quietly behind it.

What you notice first is what isn't there. No heavy cast surround, no protruding hood, no visible mechanism along the bottom. The DelRay frames into a remarkably slim wall — a fourteen-and-a-quarter-inch depth — so it tucks into a standard stud bay without bumping back into the room behind it or out into the room in front. That shallow build is the first of several installation details that make the DelRay unusually easy to place. It vents through a slim four-by-seven direct-vent run — the same coaxial pipe that carries the sixty-inch unit — and where an older B-vent chimney chase already exists, a B-vent adapter lets that run be converted to direct vent rather than torn out. Between the shallow box, the modest venting and the adapter, the same fireplace suits a wall going up for the first time and a wall that has stood for fifty years — including the upper-floor and condominium retrofits where a conventional chimney was never going to be possible.

The reason that clean face is possible is heat, and where it is sent. The DelRay carries Montigo's cool-wall heat management — the warmth the fire produces is captured and directed out where the room wants it, rather than left to soak into the wall above. The surface over the glass stays cool enough to live with, which is the quiet permission behind everything people want to do with a contemporary fireplace today: hang a television above it, mount a piece of art, or simply run the finishing material — tile, plaster, stone, or wood facing — right down to the glass opening with no metal reveal and no awkward transition. The wall meets the fire, and nothing interrupts the line.

Inside the firebox, the room keeps choosing. The bed beneath the flame can be a warm, traditional log set or a cooler modern field of glass and speckled stones; on the Square, a universal burner lets you move from one to the other without changing the burner underneath, so the fireplace can change its mind as the room does. It is field-convertible between natural gas and propane, and its heat output is deliberately modest — as little as sixteen thousand BTU on the smaller units — efficient warmth that takes the chill off a room without cooking you out of the tighter, better-insulated ones the DelRay is so often chosen for.

How much fireplace you buy is its own decision. In its base form the DelRay is honestly basic — a concealed burner and the fire, and little more — and that is what keeps it the more affordable way into a modern fireplace. From there it climbs: the full-load version arrives with Proflame® 2 intermittent-pilot ignition and a multi-function remote, a heat-circulating fan, a near-invisible mesh safety screen, black reflective glass, soft halogen downlighting, and a battery backup that keeps it lighting on the evening the power goes out. Most rooms land somewhere along that line, and part of what we do is help you decide where.

The DelRay is, plainly, the more affordable modern fireplace — the most attainable contemporary fire we show, priced as a way in rather than as the centrepiece of the room. What it is not is cheap to the eye: lit, with the finish carried to the glass, it gives very little away about what it cost. That value only becomes a finished room once someone takes responsibility for the space around the fire, and that is the part we do at Maxwell. We help you choose between the Linear and the Square and the size that suits the wall, and we settle the bed, the media and the trim with you so the engineering disappears and only the fire remains. We pull the permits. We do the gas connection, the commissioning, and the years of service after.

That is what a Creative FireSpace™ by Maxwell is. The DelRay is one quietly well-made object on a wall; the FireSpace™ is everything around it — the placement, the surround, the install run by a single team — that makes it feel as though the room was always meant to have a fire there. One conversation, one team, one project, from the first sketch to the evening we light it for you.

Available in natural gas or propane, and approved even for mobile-home installation. DelRay Linear in 36, 48, 60 and 72″; DelRay Square in 34, 38, 42 and 46″ — each offered from a base model up to a full load. Shallow fourteen-and-a-quarter-inch framing depth, four-by-seven direct venting, and a B-vent adapter available to convert many existing B-vent runs rather than rebuild them. Tell us which wall the fire has to live in, and we will tell you which DelRay it is asking for.