An original, old school Russian stove with a cooking oven and sleeping loft on top.
And a fancy "oven beds" as they are sometimes called.
According to AI, masonry heat has a gentle but penetrating warmth that feels like the sun on your skin or a warm rock. Unlike furnaces and wood stoves that heat the air, Russian stoves give a cozy, deep warmth without big temperature swings.
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That's not a Russian peasant and his faithful dog Ha! It's our own dear, hardworking Tom, soaking up warmth on the home hearth.
Amanda says the hearth is soothing to lay on (obviously) and the stove is certainly the center of the home this time of year-- shorts in December.
“And yet, what are the true joys of life? By what does a man in all sincerity measure his standard of living? For myself, I would say that the good life is a small house, a cottage, and in that cottage a hearth that will burn wood, and a lamp or two and a shelf of books.”
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