Hello!
Looking for some opinions on this. DH and I have recently bought a teeny Victorian flat. When we viewed it we saw that there was a fireplace that had been (badly) blocked up in the living room and assumed that once we moved in we would spend a bit of money, open it up and have a lovely fire, no problem.
The previous owners had their couch over the botched fireplace cover-up and we assume this was to hide the dodgy plaster work and moved it to the other side of the living room (the only other wall long enough for a sofa). However after having been there for a wee while now I've noticed that from that side of the room you can see directly into the flat opposite’s kitchen and only a sliver of sky.
So basically my dilemma is, do we have the sofa in from of the blocked up chimney breast, so we can have a view of the Sky instead of a brick wall and not be overlooked and have no fireplace/a fake mantle on an internal wall. Or do we go for opening up the real fireplace and assume the curtains will be shut most evenings anyway…
I appreciate this is a bit of a non-problem but I can’t decide which would be there better way to go, WWYD?
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Chiliprepper · 11/04/2016 10:41
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