I was a boarder in a house up north for a year after college. An old 1800's Victorian with stained glass windows and circular staircase. They had a tiny kitchen with a potbellied wood stove they used for heat in the winter. The chimney for the thing went up between each bedroom, keeping the whole house warm. But we cooked on the stove too. When we weren't using it to cook, we kept a pan of water with eucalyptus leaves in it.
On super-cold nights they would sometimes also put wood in the walk-in fireplace in the living room. Super-toasty. They had a half-cord of wood delivered every year. They had an oil tank for central heat but they kept it off most of the time.
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