Hi A&S kitchen Wardrobe, thank you for your swift response, although I would love someone redesigning my kitchen again, we have already agreed on designs with a local company. I know require styling tips and advice o finishing touches which will help Compliment and bring life to the kitchen such as the wall colour, flooring and lighting. once again thank you for your reply. regards Asifa x

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Hi, I don't know if this is any help, but when the man came to fit my log burner he lined the back and sides of the hole in the chimney breast with fire board (I think that's what he called it), it looked the same as plaster board but it was white and I don't think it needed skimming I just painted it. It maybe didn't need skimming because each side was one piece with no joins and I'm assuming it's called fire board because it's fire retardant. Sorry to sound a bit vague, it was 3 years ago and obviously your builder would have to check it out for safety, but maybe there's some fireproof material that he could use to build the frame with too. My brother had a fake chimney breast built for his log burner also, so you could possibly check out a company that sells and installs log burners for advice?

A structural engineer prepares a detailed instruction for how to do it, a builder does the work and the building regs people at the council make sure the builder has done what was required. For what you are doing it’s likely an architect is unnecessary.