Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the temperatures outside begin to drop there's nothing we'd rather do than curl up by the fire, sip hot cocoa, and read a ...

Before you go all in on your homesteader fantasy, make sure you’ve got a chimney sweep on call. Photo by Johner Images. Today, a cast-iron wood-burning stove reads as old-fashioned, nostalgic, and ...

There are many ways to keep a room warmer in the winter, but fireplaces and wood stoves are both elegant solutions to consider and work in similar ways. A traditional wood-burning fireplace requires a ...

Colin Dunn is a writer and former managing editor of TreeHugger. Pellet stoves have become darlings of the green home heating world, in some ways; they're more efficient and have fewer particle ...

When we were having the shell of our present home built the builder called us and said it was hard to work because of the cold weather. He told us he had an air tight wood stove he would install for a ...