Putting a Rayburn into our kitchen next week. Its hard working out the best place for it, as the most obvious, the inglenook, has a ruddy great beam at a level just fine for very small 19th century people but very low for everyone else (not helped by a wood floor laid over ugly tiles, raising the floor by a couple of inches).
anyway looking at the beam it is a bit higher one side, which means maybe the stove could go in off centre in the inglenook, would that look strange? And now I have to work out what to do behind it.
Tiles are the usual thing i suppose? I'm worried that will look strange in the whole inglenook when only half of it is stove, and also think it will cost a small fortune (tight budget and whole kitchen is being done). Any ideas as to something different? Or any pretty tiles seen that are not frighteningly expensive? All thoughts welcome. The stove is red btw. Need ideas as to what to put behind the sinks too.