Brazillian or English?

We've ordered our kitchen, we've also ordered our log burning stove. We now need to decide if we want Brazillian or English slates for the roof.

Rika Tavo Aqua log burning stove with back boiler

The stove will apply 70% of its heat output to water. The water is then fed to an insulated central store. The central store which is also heated via solar thermal panels on the roof will then feed domestic hot water for baths and showers and underfloor heating downstairs with radiators up stairs. Simples. We're not going to have any other form of heating apart from an immersion heater within the 500 litre thermal store, hence the need for lots of insulation and passive solar heating (sunlight) to keep the building warm.

Our Kitchen is from Wickes, it was heavily reduced in the sales, its white with a wooden work top and we're hoping we can make it work with everything internally. With the room being open plan its really difficult to make everything blend and work together especially when we don't even have a finished room to imagine things in yet.

Maybe not red but induction for sure

So the roof is off and we need to make the call... expensive local reclaimed slates that don't quite match what we have already or cheap Brazillian slates that are good quality, look the same but newer and come from such a long way to get here?!

The roof has gone

A great picture showing the gallery area from the lounge

The roof at the back of the building

Sally by the bedroom window with the new finished floor height