All are excellent suggestions Rimrook. I had been trying to get it more lifelike by messing with the lighting, it had never occurred to me to think of all those extra details. And that also answers a question I've always had, being 'Why are all the fires in Hald-Life so lifeless?'. None of them had any of those little details.
And I used Paint.NET for most of the work Tetsu0, but I then transferred the file to my tablet which has Photoshop Touch so I could do the glowing embers, as the stylus makes it a bit easier to do that kind of thing. You might also notice there are faint white streaks here and there one it. I had attempted to make it look like some of the bits of log had turned to ash, but I wasn't able to do it well enough. I then found out that PS Touch has a quite limited amount of undo's available.
As for what it is, I had an idea for a fancy house made from a converted lighthouse, so I decided I would build it. It would also be an excuse to force myself to start practicing texture making.
Plus, even though it's not really my house I thought it might make a nice addition to the Map Your House Coop project if CT is still interested. I haven't posted it in the thread, or any pictures of the house itself in this thread yet because it's still rather WIP.