we LOVE the woodstove...

We LOVE our wood stove as well.

Just this fall we got some groovy, cast iron / wood patio furniture and decked the whole room out with a bench, and some chairs, etc. Now 6 to 8 people can sit in there comfortably, and leaning back against that 80*+ cast iron is nice.

It is overly warm at times - i can relate with you on being too warm.
And when you go out and get your wood ready, your in effect paying your heat bill early.

Can you see the flames the same way as in a fireplace? I was going to add a direct-vent fireplace to my great room, but that's so expensive! I want to see the flames. I want a mantle too. Does anyone here have a mantle around their woodstove? Can I see some pics of how you guys have decorated around your woodstove?

RedTartan <- trying to decide...

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Another wood-stove lover here!
DH installed our Hearthstone last December & I just couldn't wait to start it up again this fall (had to wait until 1st of Nov).

I'll crank up the woodstove & it'll be 80 degrees in here & we'll be walking around in the buff (we don't get many visitors down here, thank goodness...for them!) Ours has a window & I like to watch the glow coming from the stove at night.

I also love putting baked beans or chicken soup or stews on top in the morning....ready for dinner when DH gets home & the house smells like wood stove cook'n.

The only "problem" we have is that I'm having trouble keeping the dog & cats from slow-cooking themselves in front of it.

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This thread made me laugh because I too love a wood stove. We bought a Hearthstone about 10 years ago and we have free natural gas to our home. Just missed the feel of wood heat. Call me crazy but I have a wood-burning cookstove as well. I'm plum crazy, but I ain't cold. LOL

The kids came home from school today and went out to play. 18 inches of snow can get in a LOT of places, even with your snow suit on. Wet clothes, wet boots, wet gloves and scarves...

One hour in front of the woodstove... priceless.

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I would really like to get a woodstove, but we have two small boys (4 and 1) who are so fascinated by fire that they just can't keep their hands off of it. Even with the pellet stove, the littlest one went right for it the one day I forgot to put the firescreen back up and burned his hand. That was a nightmare. Fortunately, it was just the lightest litttle burn like a sunburn, as I dove for him and grabbed him off the hearth before he had been there a second, but I still had to slather his hand with aloe for a few days. How do you keep your little ones from fooling with the stove? I make liberal use of the playpen when cleaning the stove, and then the firescreen goes up to keep him from the glass, which he STILL goes for - he learned nothing from the first burn! It is so frustrating!
We got such a great deal on the pellet stove - $400 for the stove and all the piping, but it has it's disadvantages dispite the MUCH lowered gas bill, so I'd like to get a woodstove to replace it eventually, but in the pellet stove's favor is the fact that ONLY the glass gets hot and a firescreen isn't any great inconvenience to accessing the stove. A woodstove gets hot all over, and would a firescreen get in the way, or even help keep the kids away?

Jessie

Menageri Momma,

They make fences that go around the woodstoves (like play gates type fences) but honestly, you can teach your kids to not touch the stove. I've got four kids that have been raised around wood stoves, my youngest is 3, he's been around them since birth.

With steady training I think they could be taught to get along with the stove in the house.

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Our woodstove is also our kitchen cookstove, so there's no avoiding it. We also have an open staircase to the second floor, so there have been times that we've opened an upstairs window a bit to draw out some of the precious heat. It also helped to have a fan behind the stove or a heat-activated fan on top.

I feel your internal heat-regulator problems

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You know you have a wood stove when you're wearing shorts for Christmas,,and so are your guests. I love it.

menagerie momma,,we have three little ones 6, 4, and 11 months . We keep a child gate around our stove so they can't touch it. Our dog has even gotten use to jumping over it when she wants to lay close to the fire.
It's also a nice place to dry laundry in the winter,,and all those snow cloths like Seedspreader said.

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