Our neighbour has - when we used to pop in to see him of a winter's evening, Veronica used to love sitting by that fire. His room is well planned - the door in is beside the fire so you don't get a draught whistling round your ears. In our house as kids both rooms with fires had the fire one side of the room, the door in the opposite wall, so your front could be toasted by the fire whilst the back of your head and neck was frozen from the draught!
Mike