Just want to see some because we are thinking about redoing our hearth pad still. Ideas ideas please. This is what we have right now and it's just plain boring lol.
I've had a couple stoves -- started with a F3cb then found a good deal on a Jotul F600 (Sold the old porcelain chipped f3 for what the F600 cost me)
The family/dining room with the stove opens into the kitchen... The F600 was really too big for the space and the room got pretty warm. So I sold it when I got my boiler going. And I'm back to looking for a good deal on a small stove. This pic was from when I was just about done redoing the kitchen -- it's not this neat anymore!
Mike, that is about the least amount of clutter I have ever seen in such a large space. Sure anyone lives there? Just kidding! Really like all the natural daylight.
If furnaces that eat pellets count, here's mine. The room that it sits in is the far corner of the basement. I adopted that as the man cave now that there is heat down there.
I know this looks like a lot of clutter, it is, but we have a lot of stuff from a lot of years and have a hard time parting out with it. I made the stained glass table lamp.
all of you guys, those are some good looking stoves, hearths, and installs! Here's our current set-ups.... The Napoleon 1900p in the kitchen..... and the Napoleon NZ3000 in the living room...... We LOVE both of those stoves, and let me tell you, that's ALL WE HEAT WITH.... We just got the NZ online this past winter, and it's an AMAZING heater.....really puts out the heat! The 1900p easily heats the whole house, now that we have both stoves we can alternate them a bit when the weather isn't deep freezing, and fire them both when the mercury REALLY drops.....
I can't take any credit, the brick mason who built it probably died before my great grandparents where born
Thanks, Grazer! I originally made that hearth that the 1900 is setting on for an antique "Home Comfort" cookstove that I have. I was going to restore that old cookstove and install it in the kitchen back in 2008 when I did a complete gut/remodel of the house. An Esse or that new LaNordica Suprema Grande WILL BE GOING ON THAT PAD SOMEDAY! To build that pad, I made a 1 1/2" high form out of strips of plywood, I figured the radiuses out (front and sides) with a string and a Sharpie marker....I then put down tar paper, screwed down some metal lath, and poured mortar in and leveled it out so it was just over the metal lath....then installed the tile as you would any other installation. Had to make LOTS of odd cuts in the tile though, to get them to flow nicely around the border. But it is a unique pad, and it was worth the extra headaches......
I've said it many times Jeremy....I love your house and the hearths in it! I love that antique charm and character that the frontier, Colonial, and Federal have..... I'm going to take a tour in that house someday.....
Thank you! I think you know from my posts last year that it was a labor of love.....my wife and I had been dreaming for a long time to have a nice fireplace, one that was also very efficient. We finally have one now... And it is very relaxing and comforting sitting next to that fire in the evening. We've had several fires in it a week or so ago, and this dang warm weather is really starting to irritate me, I want some cold weather so we can use it!!
