We have a wood burner, fitted 19 months ago. Love it. We had new fireplace built 15 years ago and never lit the fire.
When we lived in a Georgian Mansion there were quarry tiles. Throughout the ground-floor. With very old thread-bare carpets across. The romantic in my thought that I would love to 'do up' a cottage, after living there for several years I changed my mind. It was cold. The tiles needed cleaning and polishing - I did it once. They were so old that there were pitted up the middle after Centuries of being walked on, guess where the dust collected
. I would never buy a thatched property due to fire risk.
We loved it there despite the cold
. Now we have oil-fired central heating and the woodturner. Large rooms which we have filled with stuff! Wall-2-wall carpets or wooden floors downstairs, carpets up. Still makes dust