[ApplegateRanch]

The wood range was there when we bought, and we decided to leave it, and remodel around it--no electricity or plumbing beyond a hand pump on the kitchen sink. A gas range sits opposite it, and does most of the cooking duty, but the wood burner is used for heat to keep the electric bill reasonable.

There's also a wood stove in the utility room that keeps it & the down stairs bedroom warm, and sends heat up the stairs to the upper bedroom, as well.

The utility room is directly underneath the kitchen; and the kitchen floor is its only ceiling, it also keeps the kitchen floor toasty: happiness is a warm puppy floor!

[greeneyes]

oooh yeh. We used to have a great wood stove in the basement and no insulation between the floors. We would fire it up full blast on the the coldest days and stay very warm and the furnace rarely kicked in.

Sometimes Hubby would get both fireplaces and the woodstove cranking, and you’d feel like you needed to get out the summer clothes. LOL.

I really miss it sometimes. Now that it’s just the 2 of us, we just turn down the heat, put on sweaters and thermal underwear and hangout downstairs where the temp stays pretty constant anyway, and the really nice TV resides in the family room.LOL.