The thing to bear in mind is that you need a defra exempt stove if you are planning to burn wood in a smokeless zone, but there are loads available. I would let the installer deal with with the hearth along with the flue liner when it is installed. I have an open fire with a gas tray fitted and its great and also a stove which I love but as people say does throw out a lot of heat. These photos are my house, both of the fires were supplied and installed by Harrogate Feature Fireplaces. The sitting room fire is one of their huge selection of period cast iron fireplaces, and the stove is by Yeoman.

Given the limited amount of information we all give the best advice possible from our own experience- I’m sorry Jen doesn’t agree. Given we don’t know the house sizes, budget, planning constraints we don’t know with certainty if anything suggested is possible. But if it were my house I would prefer the boiler to be in the utility than in the main entrance (but I concede budget may dictate otherwise). As far as this being a complicated flue some boilers can have horizontal flues of up to 8m long and an extension to the one supplied with the boiler is rarely more than £50 - given the stated aspiration of a loft conversion I felt it was safe to assume this £50 was in budget although Jen is right that moving the boiler may be an expense too far given the work you intend to take on. Equally if you intend reconfiguring the house your existing heating pipework may need to be relocated and moving the boiler may be easily done at the same time. Since this post is mainly to get inspiration for a new layout and I have done my best to give one possibility that delivers the stated aims I don’t feel any defense of my efforts is necessary. In my humble opinion the boiler conversation could pose a different discussion on a different thread as if your end goal is to have three bathrooms you may prefer to get a system boiler with a hot water storage cylinder to better deliver your hot water. In which case you need to put the cylinder somewhere- you could get rid of the side porch to make the proposed utility bigger in order to also accommodate the cylinder.

Hello! Have you started to select things for this project? There is quite a lot of questions but I am happy to do my best to help. If you would like we have an e-design service which I think would be a great suggestion for this. We offer a free consultation, If you would like to discuss this further please contact us: Info@klardesign.uk

Hi thanks so much. We are looking in to replacing the 2 large windows with a thinner longer frame design. (Currently we have the bottom pane on the large window as a privacy glass as it’s a child’s bedroom So that may be an issue). And also mirroring the longer design in the small window above the porch roof. No idea whether aluminium or plastic is better for this. I do like the black just concerned it darkens it all if we do black composite cladding / black door & black garage ...