Digital Biographer

Decided indecision in the kitchen

Home decoration, especially renovations, can be a fraught area when it comes to maintaining domestic bliss and calm. Often, the police reports eupemistically refer to such lively exchanges of opinion as "domestic situations". Also known as raging bloody rows. So I decided to compromise on my kitchen design. Yes, I'm just going for what my wife wants. And then making small alterations and suggestions... Which means I'm in charge of opening up the fireplace, which may be its 1905 state somewhere behind a lot of rubbish and bricks and an odd gas back-boiler contraption. I think a coal-effect gas fire, as we have in our lounge, (often mistaken for real fire) would be great, as there's nothing quite like real flame to bring the focus to the hearth... but most of the designs of fires I have seen are NAFF. I plan to be updating this blog with my design discoveries on the path to a nice fire and surround...