Totally get the wall space thing. We had huge, aging, gas heating for house and water, so we got a bit of space back, but it was touch and go there for a while. We're also lucky that the utility wall is behind the house, barely even visible from the neighbours' upstairs side windows. Also understand keeping the coal burner, seeing as you don';t need it often. Linda fancies herself a master chef and I was going to be prizing a gas cooktop from her cold, dead hand, lol. (And we have our gas bbq and tiny wood fired pizza oven, too. The latter will be prized from my cold, dead hand! Thinking about baking the daily bread in it, in fact.)