I have a gas fireplace, too. It is my only source of heat at the moment, but where I live heat is not that critical so only being able to heat one room is okay. And it gets the living room nice and toasty, as long as I don't have the back door open
Every time I think I'll light a fire in the outside fireplace doohickey it seems to be a no burn day (air quality thing).
My personal trainer session was just, like, assessment and planning, no actual working out, yay! But I had coffee before, so now I am so very tired but definitely awake. I do not know what to do with myself.
My wish list would be wrap around porch, curved stairwell, a magic vegetable garden that only needed a tiny little bit of work, and a bathroom with an oversized jacuzzi tub.
I may be able to add that last one, some day.
It's like 65 degrees in New Orleans. I'm just saying.
Also, I had a muffaletta for lunch. Well, a quarter of a muffaletta. Well, I bought a quarter and then ate half of that because those sandwiches are huge.
I want a steam shower. And a cabana boy.
And a bookshelf that's a doorway to a secret compartment.
I toured a house that had one of those! It was a pretty ordinary house, but in one room a bookshelf would swing out to reveal a little extra room - IIRC the owner was a carpenter or shipbuilder and did built it himself, just because he could. I think the hidden room was used as an office.
Fireplace, claw-footed tub, ENOUGH BOOKSHELVES AND CLOSETS, and maid service. Those are on my wishlist.
High on my list are series of pneumatic tubes. (Possibly cat-sized) and a secret passage/room through a bookcase.
My sister has been restoring an old cabin we own up in Canada, and was toying with the idea of ripping out the HOLY GOD WHAT WERE YOU THINKING GRANNY BEYOND GODAWFUL bathroom that's there now and installing a composting toilet instead. I say go for it, it can't possible be any worse than what's there now.
My grandparents up in New Hampshire have a wood stove in their kitchen/sitting room, and space heaters in the second floor bedrooms. And lots and LOTS of wool blankets. I love it up there.
I should dig up the pictures I've taken of my aunt's antique "Cottage Diamond" wood stove that they use up in the Catskills. If I could inherit one thing from that house, I'd take the stove.
I suspect the cats would not be so keen on pneumatic tube transport.
