So you have two fireplaces? Is one located in the room below the living room or? I believe it's a boiler room on the original plan. In our house, they chose to divide the laundry room in half and make part of it into a boiler room, you have to go through the boiler room to get to the laundry room... Now the boiler room isn't as dirty anymore, but before we installed geothermal heating, it felt a bit grimy.
It's 80cm up to the top edge of the window sill... Our counters in the kitchen are 85, and I think that's too low...
I actually thought about that myself today, but after checking the height, I had to give up. It's a shame, it would have been nice with a bit more cabinet and counter space.
I actually thought about that myself today, but after checking the height, I had to give up. It's a shame, it would have been nice with a bit more cabinet and counter space.
The question is how aesthetically pleasing it would be... we have facade brick on our house... but if you have wood paneling, maybe it can be solved in a nice way. In the drawings in the catalog from Hultfredshus, there is a door between the kitchen and the living room. Do you have that door or do you also have a full wall?
We will also remove the wall to the basement, but first we will finish the bathroom and recreational room in the basement. However, we plan to keep the part of the wall that goes away from the kitchen and living room... it would probably look a bit strange otherwise, since a part of the hall floor has been taken to give enough headroom on the basement stairs. There were cabinets placed there to hide it when we bought the house. We discovered this when we removed the cabinets, so we had to build a bench with storage over the floor elevation.
So far, it seems to be going well... I can't measure in the same place as before because I have installed a cover strip on the ceiling where I previously measured, but the last time I measured, the height was the same. We'll see how it goes when there's a proper amount of snow weighing it down...
Of course, I can provide some more pictures... just let me know what you want pictures of and I'll arrange it...
Of course, I can provide some more pictures... just let me know what you want pictures of and I'll arrange it...
The reciprocating saw is probably unnecessary.... Start by removing the surface layer (fiberboard), then you can use a crowbar to remove the fiber planks piece by piece... but if you don't mind dust and dirt, it might be fun to use a reciprocating saw. At our place, the pipes to the old expansion tank went up through this wall, quite close to the chimney. Since they installed a new one in the basement when we switched to geothermal heating, I could just cut them at the bottom and pull them up into the attic (where they still lie cluttering).
For the floors and ceiling, I bought planed wood, which I milled to a suitable profile (different heights in the kitchen and living room) and painted. The chimney needs a bit of new plaster since those who built the house put up the wall before plastering + we've removed the damper for the fireplace insert we are going to install (14/12)... the company installing the insert will handle the plastering. I'm not going to do anything about the wall towards the hallway yet since we're considering changing the openings a bit, I've resolved this with "fine" masking tape for now.
I'll soon post a couple of pictures as well...
For the floors and ceiling, I bought planed wood, which I milled to a suitable profile (different heights in the kitchen and living room) and painted. The chimney needs a bit of new plaster since those who built the house put up the wall before plastering + we've removed the damper for the fireplace insert we are going to install (14/12)... the company installing the insert will handle the plastering. I'm not going to do anything about the wall towards the hallway yet since we're considering changing the openings a bit, I've resolved this with "fine" masking tape for now.
I'll soon post a couple of pictures as well...
I also talked to hultfredshus, but since I only have a floor plan and no construction drawings, they couldn't give a definite answer... one of the engineers was quite sure I could remove it while another was a bit unsure and therefore advised against it.. But now it's gone and the house is still standing 
it works well, what I would like to change is that I would like to have a dishwasher under the window but the opening between the cabinets is too small, so some of the cabinets would need to be removed, and that's annoying.. I will take a picture when it's a bit nicer here at home....
I will take a picture when it's a bit nicer here at home....