I bought a house in Elgin, Illinois that desperately wanted to be a farmhouse.
The previous owners painted the exterior orange and brown.
The inside had wood walls on half and checked wallpaper on the others. Everything was all wood and rustic. It was tacky in my opinion. The worst was there was a woodstove right in the middle of the living room. It sat on a brick pad and was vented to the ceiling. I checked the vent and noticed it was clean as a whistle. The people put it in as a decorative feature. The central heater was good 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 remove it. The company removed it but didn’t want the gear. They said the wood stove was too tiny to be a home heater. It was meant for a small home or a shack. So I ended up listing it online and a guy bought it for his hunting cabin. I had to redo the flooring where the brick pad was removed. I hired roofers to remove the stack on the roof and to patch my wood ceiling. All of that work and money was to remove a pointless heater. Why would anyone want a woodstove in Elgin? There are more attractive and impressive heating systems that can combat the winter. All it did was take up space and look ugly.