MR,
Do you have a pic of your woodburner?
When I built my house about 4 years ago, I purchased a small wood burning stove:
Vermont Castings NC Wood Stoves
ASPEN 1920
ASPEN - 1920 Stoves | Wood Stoves - Non-Catalytic Wood Stoves by Vermont Castings
It was just going to be for an occassinal fire, and mostly just for looks. I had never had any experiance with a wood burning stove before.
After we started using it (and calculating the cost with and without for heating) we really enjoyed it, and burn all winter long (Michigan: Nov - Mar).
But, I would suggest to anyone getting a wood burning stove to go larger, not smaller (just like out buildings). The one I have does fine to keep our hallway, kitchen, dining, and living room warm, because these rooms are an open design. Plus we like our bedrooms colder for sleeping. But the stove I have is hard to load, and you have to cut the wood/logs very small to load the stove. And if you load it correctly, and damper it all the way down at night before going to bed, in the morning (7-8 hours) you usually have some coals left to fire up another load. But not much, so you can't doddle, get side tracked or sleep in.
If I had it to do over, I would:
-locate the stove in the center of house (or close to)
-get a larger stove (2000 btu's plus, to cover 1800-2400 sqft. easily)
-one that has a large (length wise) front door (or double door)
-one that has a large ash drawer, and removable without openning the door
-and buy one of these:
TractorByNet.com Classifieds Item 831287742 - Aspen wood stove fan - Runs on heat
(btw, am I just a slow typer, or does this reply board "time out" quickly"?)