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Anyone got lovely horizontal radiators?

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WhereDoesThisToiletGo · 02/05/2019 21:04

Sorry, yet another thread...

So well down the rabbit hole of planning a fairly small extension, but involves knocking through the enlarged living room to the kitchen dining room.
From the very beginning I said I wanted UFH, but I'm now wavering.

Reasons-
Cost, obviously. We're looking at 50m2 so a fair old area.

Logistics - until we get a test area dug in corner of living room, it's unclear just how big a job it's going to be to lower the existing floor enough to install the UFH. Or even if there is enough potential space before we hit the block and beam floor.
We absolutely do not want a step up into the kitchen.

Mess and disruption, plus time to install.

Reasons for UFH
radiators are not the prettiest things!
We don't need the wall space that radiators occupy, but the available space is under both windows so will require horizontal rads.
There are some lovely stylish tall thin vertical rads but all the horizontal ones look so.... dull
If I could find horizontal ones I loved, it would make giving up on UFH easier.

Anyone got lovely radiators?

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BluntAndToThePoint · 02/05/2019 23:31

You haven't mentioned any particular colour or style so try here for some inspiration.
www.designerradiatorsdirect.co.uk/horizontal-radiators
www.onlyradiators.co.uk/radiators/horizontal-radiators

My MIL used both sites when refurbishing her house. She picked these for her conservatory.
www.designerradiatorsdirect.co.uk/aeon-supra-single-horizontal

I have my eye on these for when we start our extension later this year. They will probably be a total dust magnet but I don't care!
www.onlyradiators.co.uk/reina-artena-rns-at904bd-pv

AwkwardPaws27 · 03/05/2019 08:33

What period is the rest of your house? If Victorian / Edwardian the steel column rads look fab

WhereDoesThisToiletGo · 03/05/2019 09:27

It's a 20 year generic family home with no particular style.
It's fairly traditionally decorated in a fairly unexciting middle aged fashion but this new extended room is going to a bit more contemporary.
Thank you for your links @BluntAndToThePoint. I think I might have looked at those sites but it's very hard to get excited about something as mundane as a radiator.
I don't know whether to have something totally unremarkable and hope they blend in or go for real statement rad which yells LOOK AT ME!

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