The stove will be our back up heat source in the main part of the house. We had already opted out of a wood stove or fireplace. The official reason is that gas stoves are much less polluting. In reality, the thought of never cleaning out ashes or splitting firewood won over the inherent beauty of a wood fire.
Why buy the stove so soon? A new law in the United States compels the manufactures of glass-fronted gas stoves (but not wood stoves) to put screens over the glass so it can't be touched. The best stoves are manufactured in Europe. European manufacturers, so far, have reacted to this 2015 regulation by ignoring it and just not exporting stoves to the US. No one is sure which models will ever reach these shores again. Given that, when we found a stove we liked (the last one of its kind in New Mexico), we bought it. It will sit in the retailer's warehouse for many months, until there is a place for it to be installed.
We went for a modern stove design, to go with the whole design of the house. It's made in Germany and is quite a bit more impressive than the photo. About 4 feet tall. It will sit against the eastern wall between the kitchen/dining area and the living room. The shape of the glass allows the flame to be seen from both rooms.
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