10 Things You Need To Know About Installing a Wood-burning Stove

Our kitchen is north-facing. It is practically Baltic in the winter and the two radiators in there just don’t seem to make any difference. We have long fantasised about installing a wood-burning stove but never been sure where to put one. And over the last eight years I have spent much of the winter at this typing wearing scarves and fingerless gloves and typing away like a character in a Dickens novel.

my arada wood-burning stove in the kitchen As some of you will know, we extended the kitchen to create this dining space above but we weren’t allowed to go full width across the back, which meant that there was no room for a sofa. Then, earlier this year, Arada approached me about working together to install a stove in my kitchen and I realised that while I couldn’t fit a sofa I could push out a little and create a chimney space for a wood-burning stove. The man from Arada first came round last March. After spending approximately 10 minutes in the kitchen he asked if we could move to t…