Enjoy the heat of a wood stove on a cold winter day
December 30th, 2008
Although technology has given us access to a wide variety of modern home heating systems, many home owners still choose a wood burning stove. If you are considering getting a new heating system, you may be concerned that your wood-burning options will be limited to the smoky “pot belly” cast-iron stoves that you have seen in old movies or your grandparents’ home. That’s just not so!
There are “new antique” and restored models designed to resemble the old Franklin Stoves of earlier days if a more traditional style suits you.
There are even post-modern fireplaces in non-traditional form factors, such as an Italian-designed round stove which hangs suspended from the ceiling, detached from the floor. In the case of this unconventional wood stove, Antrax Bubble, the chimney also provides support for the stove itself, keeping it suspended above the floor level.
By now, you’ve probably realized that your woodstove options are so varied that your biggest concern will be simply narrowing down your list to the stove that is best for you. Wood stove accessories are important to complete the look as well as gain the use of popular items to help you use it.
If you don’t have a fireplace and have no option for putting one in, another alternative is one of these stoves. We have friends who put one in their basement and it sits right in the middle of the room with a big black pipe going up to the ceiling. There’s a ton of heat that comes out of that thing, you wouldn’t want a child running into it, so they built theirs up on a base and taught their children that it was hot.
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