I have a living room and kitchen that are divided by a non-loadbearing wall with a "door" opening between the two. I am thinking widening the width of the doorway (and raising the top of it up a bit) and setting my Woodstock Keystone in the opening with the front/glass side of the stove facing the living room and the backside of the stove towards the kitchen. The stove pipe would exit from the top of the stove straight-up through the ceiling of the kitchen and through the roof. The stove would be somewhat centered below the wall opening with part of it sticking into the living room and the other half into the kitchen. I would reconstruct the door opening to be wide enough for combustable clearances and wide enough on the stove side door side to continue to use the door opening as the go-between the kitchen and living room.
The idea is to do a couple of things:
1. Rather having the stove free standing in the living room, taking-up floor space in an otherwise small room and getting in the way when walking through, if it is centered between the kitchen/living room it would be less obtrusive.
2. Being centered between the kitchen/LR, with the backside of the stove in the kitchen, makes the stove's heat easily able to radiate in the kitchen too. It also puts the stove almost dead center to my house vs. a living room install - so all of the house would benefit to some extent.
Questions is - should I consider covering the back side of the stove from a decorative point of view with something? Anyone done a freestanding stove in the middle of a room and if so, was the look of the backside of the stove offending?
Lastly, how far up from the top of the stove should I move the door opening? I see a lot of info on side clearances, but what about the top?
Thanks!!
Bill
The idea is to do a couple of things:
1. Rather having the stove free standing in the living room, taking-up floor space in an otherwise small room and getting in the way when walking through, if it is centered between the kitchen/living room it would be less obtrusive.
2. Being centered between the kitchen/LR, with the backside of the stove in the kitchen, makes the stove's heat easily able to radiate in the kitchen too. It also puts the stove almost dead center to my house vs. a living room install - so all of the house would benefit to some extent.
Questions is - should I consider covering the back side of the stove from a decorative point of view with something? Anyone done a freestanding stove in the middle of a room and if so, was the look of the backside of the stove offending?
Lastly, how far up from the top of the stove should I move the door opening? I see a lot of info on side clearances, but what about the top?
Thanks!!
Bill