I love my children so much, and I probably spoil them a little more than I should, but I can’t help myself. Our oldest son, Brett, just went off to college a couple of weeks ago. Nothing could have prepared me for what that felt like. We still have two others at home, but it is not the same without Brett here. I really miss him a lot. I may have went a little overboard when buying things for him for college. He even told me that I needed to stop buying him things because he was afraid that he would have no place to put them in the dorm room. One thing that I made sure to buy though was a space heater. I called and asked permission of course. I was worried that they would not let him use a space heater in his dorm room because it would cost them more money, but they said that as long as his roommate was okay with it, he could use one. Brett has used a space heater in his room for years. Ever since he was a baby, he has gotten cold at night. I actually took him to the doctor about it many years ago, but they could not figure out why he got so cold at night. His bedroom was always the same temperature as the rest of the house, and he was fine during the day. It is strange, but it is just what he has to deal with. I am so glad that I was able to buy him a nice space heater for his dorm room. Now, he will stay nice and warm and will be able to get some needed sleep.
The house is really warm now that we have a fireplace downstairs
I never thought that our house was chilly before, but now that we have a fireplace in the living room, it is super warm and toasty in our house.
Well, at least downstairs is super warm and toasty.
I get cold upstairs in our bedroom sometimes, but I think that is because the windows in our bedroom are old and tend to lose quite a bit of heat. I really only wanted a fireplace for aesthetic reasons, but after getting it, I realized that I really love the warmth that it brings to the house as well. To me, there is nothing more comforting than walking into a warm house after working hard all day. My husband has even commented on how much he likes the house being a bit warmer. We were going to get a regular old wood burning fireplace, but we changed our minds last minute. My husband thought that he would not mind chopping wood to keep up with the demand of the fireplace, but he ended up getting promoted at work, and now, he works more hours which means he has less time to chop wood. He decided that getting an electric fireplace would probably be best for us. I am glad that he did because I was not looking forward to the mess that carrying wood into the house would make. I am sure that the electric fireplace is not nearly as warm as a wood fireplace would be, but it is much less maintenance. I think it sort of balances out the issue. Plus, we really do not need the fireplace to give off any more heat than our electric one does. It makes our house the perfect temperature.
I am debating on whether or not to buy a new furnace
I am having a conflict in my mind.
You see, I really want to build a small addition onto our house so that I can have a room for my pets.
I am so sick of the mess that the dogs make in the kitchen when they are eating, and the cats’ litter boxes are in the bathroom which drives me crazy. I want a room that I can put all of the pet supplies and beds in. It would be so nice to have one room dedicated to the pets instead of having their things spread throughout the house. The only reason that I am debating on whether or not to build that room is because our furnace has been acting strange lately. I really do not understand it. We had it checked out by and HVAC technician, and he could not figure out why it was making weird noises either. He said that it could go for another ten years, or it could quit tomorrow. That did not really help at all. Now, I am debating whether or not I should just go ahead and buy a new furnace. I hate to waste money on a new furnace if this one will last another ten years, but on the other hand, I do not want to build a room for the pets and then have our furnace stop working. I would not have the money for a new one at that point. My husband thinks that the furnace should be fine, so he votes that we just go ahead and build a room for the pets. I am leaning that way too, but I am still not sure.
Heating and cooling our tiny house is so convenient
My husband and I made the choice to move into a tiny house. We love to travel, and we can pull our tiny house just about anywhere we want to go. Many people asked us why we did not just get and RV or fifth wheel, and the reason we didn’t get one of those was because they were actually more expensive than our tiny house was. My husband ended up building our house by himself, and he did a really great job. We modeled our house after one of the tiny houses that we had looked at, and we ended up building it for about a third of the cost that we would have paid if you would have bought it prebuilt. My husband is an excellent carpenter, so he added many little details to make our house unique, and I absolutely love it. The best part about our tiny house is how inexpensive it is to heat and cool it. We use just one little window AC unit during the summer months, and it keeps our entire house cool. I even find myself during off the air conditioner sometimes because it makes the house too cold for my liking. We have a tiny furnace that I believe was supposed to go in a camper, but my husband made it work for our tiny house. It also does a great job. We have not had any trouble with keeping our house warm either. I just love our new life of traveling in our tiny home. We plan to do it for the rest of our lives.
I had an air conditioner installed in my kitchen
When I was younger, I dreamed of becoming the world’s best chef. I used to beg my mom to watch cooking shows with me so that I could learn how to make some of the “fancier dishes.” I never became famous by any means, but I certainly love to cook. I would cook all day if I had someone to eat all of the food I would make. When we went to buy our house, the first thing that I checked out was the kitchen because I knew I would be spending most of my time in there. The kitchen in our house is not very big, but we have plans to add on to it. I have only had one issue with my small kitchen and that is how stuffy and warm it gets in there during the summertime. It gets so hot sometimes that is dampers my love for cooking. I did not think that anything could do that! I told my husband about it, and he suggested installing a small air conditioner in the window beside my refrigerator. We have air conditioning throughout our house, but it obviously was not doing the trick, so I decided that purchasing a small, window unit would probably help quite a bit. I bought one the following week and installed it in the window. I have had the air conditioner for about two weeks now, and I love it! I can enjoy cooking once again even when it is blazing hot outside! I think my husband is pretty happy that I enjoy cooking again too because that means he gets more to eat!
My husband is trying different ways to heat his little shed outback
My husband and I have lived in the same house ever since we were first married, and it does not have a garage.
My husband loves to work on cars and small engines.
He cannot do it as much as he would like though because he does not have a garage. I watch him lying out on the rocks under vehicles trying to fix them, and I wish so badly that I could build him a garage. We are getting close to having the money saved up to build him his two story, four car garage. Until then, he keeps his tools and small engines in a little shed outback. It is definitely not enough space, but he keeps it organized, so he can still get things done. He has been trying to heat the shed for some time now. He tried just putting some little electric space heaters out there, and they did warm up the shed a bit, but it was not warm enough for him. He needs it to be at least fifty-degrees so that his fingers are not stiff. Last week, he went through a insulated the shed. He used some sort of foam insulation to do it. He is hoping that the insulation will keep the shed from losing as much heat as before. We had a small, propane heater that we used to put in our basement, and he is planning on trying to use that to heat the shed. He is almost positive that the propane heater will do the trick because it puts off quite a bit more heat than the electric space heaters do. I hope he can heat his shed, but I cannot wait until he has a heated garage to work in.
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