| Interior design is changing and, if you ask me, it's | | | | provide a more up to date and contemporary |
| about time. We're abandoning the cheap 'MDF' | | | | solution. Whichever way you go the most |
| approach and instead opting for something a bit | | | | important thing is to make sure they are |
| more classical and few things say 'classical' than | | | | compatible with your existing design. A classical |
| solid good old fashioned wood burning stoves. | | | | design, for example, may not fit well within a |
| Stoves have been at the heart of the English | | | | clean and contemporary environment. |
| home since time in memoriam. In ancient times | | | | If you're commissioning a specially designed stove, |
| they were the place where the family gathered | | | | then it makes sense to have a consultation to |
| for warmth and heat. During those cold winter | | | | work out what would work best - both from |
| months it was the lifeline for all families. Not only | | | | your design needs and functionality. Because, let's |
| could it be used for cooking, but providing heat to | | | | not forget, these are first and foremost functional |
| the entire room. | | | | items and this aspect should not be forgotten. |
| These days we have central heating and a whole | | | | Like it or not utility bills are set to rise, so every |
| array of modern cooking appliance. We do not | | | | household is looking for ways to reduce their |
| need them in the way our forebears did, but | | | | energy outlay. Wood burning stoves can provide a |
| somehow a place feels much more like home | | | | good ongoing source of heat and reduce your |
| with a warm wood burning stove at the centre | | | | reliance on your gas supplier. The benefits of that |
| of the living space. | | | | will never have been felt more keenly than this |
| What makes wood burning stoves so essential to | | | | winter as home owners find themselves on the |
| my eyes is that they epitomize what I see as | | | | end of some quite demanding gas and electricity |
| central to good old English design. They look solid | | | | bills. |
| and dependable - the real beating heart of any | | | | So as we increasingly look for ways to lighten the |
| self respecting home. | | | | load on our wallets, it seems certain that more |
| They come in a number of different designs. | | | | and more people will be turning to traditional, old |
| Traditionalists will probably prefer a classical effect, | | | | fashioned methods, to heat their homes. The |
| but there are plenty of companies who can | | | | good old stove is making a come back. |