Just bought our first place and the heat layout has me scratching my head. There's baseboard heat along most of the outside walls, but the whole corner where the kitchen and the little bathroom sit has zero heat at all. Not a radiator, not a vent, nothing. The inspector waved it off when we bought the place, said those rooms pick up warmth from the rest of the floor, and honestly we didn't think much of it untill the temps started dropping.
Now I'm second guessing that. The kitchen sink sits right under the window on the outer wall, and both doorways into the kitchen are wide open to the dining room and living room, no doors to hold any warmth in. The first floor is only around 800 sq ft, so in theory the heat from the living room should drift over there, right? The bathroom worries me more than the kitchen though. Pipes in an unheated corner in February sounds like a bad combo. Has anyone lived with a setup like this? Do you just add a small electric heater in those rooms and call it done, or is this something worth fixing properly before a pipe gives me a really bad morning?