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  • beanielou
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  • Cherryfudge
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    I bet the kitchen looks great! So nice to have so much fresh decor. :)

    There's an added bonus to leaving the sitting room for now: after Christmas I always think things look dreary and need cheering up, and you won't need to do the rest of the house as it's still newly done so a new look for the living area will be perfectly timed. (Apart from it being too cold to air away the smell of paint, but the other side of that is that the heating will be on so it'll dry quickly).
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  • Seasidegal58
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    Re the fireplace surround - if you don't need the fire for warmth why don't you just get rid of it and open up the wall for more space.  I remember watching Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in a homes programmes some years ago and he remarked that times had changed with regard to the fireplace being the space in the home that people gravitated to. It's because years ago before we had central heating folk would sit around the fire for warmth listening to the radio in the evening. With the advent of central heating and television the focal point for families has changed to the television!  Of course quite a few people still like the look of a nice fireplace, whether modern or traditional, and they've become more of an interior design statement.  If you're not that bothered though you could free up the wall for a nice piece of furniture. 
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  • RelievedSheff
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    We took the fireplace out of our last house because it just wasn't needed and it took up far too much room in what was not a huge room.
  • milann
    milann Posts: 11,384 Forumite
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    edited 25 August 2021 at 10:00PM
    I still like a fireplace. I hate one of my relatives living room which hasn’t got one and it feels like a doctors surgery 😂😂😂 mmmm…..maybe that’s because the conversation there rotates around their various ailments though 😂😂😂
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  • Sun_Addict
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    This is what’s there now


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