Reinstating a chimney breast
I have just bought a victorian terrace house with a long, narrow rear galley kitchen. The previous owners have at some point removed the chimney breast in the kitchen and installed a large steel beam running the length of the kitchen to support the chimney stack in the bathroom above. The problem I have is the ceilings are very low in the kitchen already and where the steel beam is the ceiling is a lot lower, in fact it's so low you would have trouble installing top level cupboards I am thinking about reinstating the chimney stack so that I can get rid of the steel beam, I am planning on running the kitchen cupboards along the wall where the chimney stack is and having the oven in the chimney stack opening with the extractor fan venting into the chimney. this means I am not really using any space but gaining quite a bit of head height along that wall. Has anyone got any thoughts or advice on this and whether its a good idea or not? PS The photo is from the estate agents brochure :-)
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Jonathan
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