Bun Roasters - Pro or Con?

Watching the latest Property Brothers show (I find myself addicted to them since our move and major remodel a few years ago) and something came up that seemed odd to me.

First, I should say that I like fireplaces - we had four wood burning ones at our old house and we have four gas fireplaces at the new house. That being said I am naturally cold blooded (our house is kept at 65 F.) and sitting beside a fireplace isn't my preference unless it is really, really cold out.

The show has the owners agreeing to the creation of a large dining room in the existing room with a fireplace at the end of it. That, plus their desire for a large/long table relegates someone to the end seat, sitting right in front of the fireplace.

Does that make any sense at all? You can't really see the fireplace as it is behind the poor guy who is roasting in front of it and even with no people present it would be largely obscured by the table and chairs.

Does anyone have or is in favour of a fireplace in a dining room?

[Jenise]

I'm only slightly less cold-blooded than you, and so it's a no for me. The only times I've seen DR fireplaces is in much older homes that, at one time, like your two houses, wouldn't have had central heat.

I have, a few times in life, been at a big dinner in an older home and even a restaurant where multiple table extensions caused a few unlucky diner(s) to be seated with their backs to a fireplace. Worst place in the room, and a near-death experience--and will you forgive me for observing not entirely unlike being on the south side of your Palmerston garden tables at a summer terrine dinner!!!

Worst place in the room, and a near-death experience--and will you forgive me for observing not entirely unlike being on the south side of your Palmerston garden tables at a summer terrine dinner!!!

If I could have arranged a six hour long solar eclipse, I would have......

I read the thread title thinking this was yet another advanced American technological apparatus that had yet to reach our shores

Rather a very old English technology (12th century - don't get me started on it as I once did a paper on that and the social changes it made possible). An issue that arises from remodelling homes with fireplaces in rooms where you wish there were none.

The guy we bought our house from was fireplace mad - he had four of them installed and happened to tell me hw as planning on a 5th one in the dining room. I told him that unless it was large enough to roast a sheep on a spit I couldn't really see the point. (Glad we caught it before he got around to it - we'd have had to block it up as there is barely room for our giant dining table plus a couple of sideboards as is).

Silly me. At first I thought it was a new appliance for toasting hamburger buns. Then I thought but single use appliances are generally frowned on in this community. Then I read the posts.... silly me

Me too.

Bun as slang for buttocks not in use here.... yet!

Me too.

Bun as slang for buttocks not in use here.... yet!

Pretty close to "bum," though.