I bought a condo in Elgin, Illinois that desperately wanted to be a farmhouse, however the previous owners painted the exterior red and brown.
The inside had wood walls on half and checked wallpaper on the others, however everything was all wood and rustic, but it was tacky in my opinion. The worst was there was a woodstove right in the middle of the kitchen. It sat on a brick pad and was vented to the ceiling. I checked the vent and noticed it was wash as a whistle. The people put it in as a decorative feature. The central furnace was unbelievable enough for the Illinois winter. I didn’t need the supplemental heat of the woodstove. I also hated that it took up so much room. I ended up calling an Elgin heating dealership to detach it. The corporation removed it however did not want the gear. They said the wood stove was too tiny to be a condo heater. It was meant for a small condo or a shack! So I ended up listing it online and a woman bought it for her hunting cabin. I had to redo the flooring where the brick pad was removed. I hired roofers to detach the stack on the roof and to patch my wood ceiling! All of that work and money was to detach a pointless heater! Why would anyone want a woodstove in Elgin? There are more appealing and impressive boilers that can combat the winter. All it did was take up space and look ugly.