Whatever you do, don't "over stove." That is buying too much stove for the square footage of your place. If you have too much stove it will run you out of the place.

We bought a stove rated for about 1200s.f. Our cabin has 2 floors, each with 480 S.F. and two 3rd floor lofts each with 72 s.f. That's a total of 1104 s.f. Our stove will get the whole thing so warm that even in winter sometimes I will have to crack the bedroom windows upstairs to get some cool air in there.

By the way our stove is a European Style stove that is EPA approved so we got a tax rebate that covered the cost of the stove. I got it at an end of the season sale for $500. It's a "Summer's Heat" made in the USA and we have been very happy with it. Not fancy, but simple and classic. Plus it has the glass in the front so we can enjoy the flames.

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Last edited by Irishguy; 08/10/22 06:23 PM.