I had a big dilemma when renovating my small kitchen — to make it an open-plan space, I had to remove the wall that had the radiator on, and with no other wall to relocate it to without losing cabinetry, it became a question of how we'd keep this room warm.
The obvious answer? Underfloor heating. But while it's a brilliantly easy way to bring warmth to an entire room, it's not always that easy. It would have required not only the expense of buying and installing a new system, but also excavating the floor to ensure the threshold between rooms wasn't a big step, and I had already specified a particularly chunky flooring made from slices of reclaimed brick. For this project, it just wasn't going to work for the budget.
