5 +1 ideas to enhance your wood-burning stove

Finally, you have chosen the perfect heating system for your home. You have thought long and hard about positioning, power, efficiency, energy savings, ecological impact,... Now that you have made up your mind, and your choice has been directed towards a wood-burning stove, another question pops up on the horizon. The aesthetic one. The wood-burning stove is an important addition to your home and your furniture, and you want to understand how to choose it and integrate it into your decor. Fear not, we at La Nordica-Extraflame have the right solution for every need. There are many models in the range, for all tastes and needs. 

With this article, we want to help you find ideas and inspiration to make the most of your wood stove in the home.

Let us come to the practical advice, the things you can actively do to make your stove a real design piece. The first suggestion is to place it on a particular wall in your home, painted in a colour that contrasts with that of the product to make it more visible. Or, you can install the product on a wall covered with exposed brick or stone to place your stove in a kind of scenography. As in the case of our Marlena, the enamelled cast iron wood stove, perfect on a red brick wall.

If, on the other hand, the style of your home is more sober and clean, still talking about walls, we recommend you make a minimalist choice: paint the wall behind the stove in the same or a similar colour! You will thus create a chromatic harmony for a style that never tires. Our white tiled Concita 2.0, for example, has been placed in a decor characterised by light tones, like that of the wall on which it has been installed.

Have you ever thought of creating a niche in which to place your wood-burning stove, such as inside an old, unused fireplace? Some wood-burning stoves are created especially for this purpose due to their small size. Thus enhanced, the wood-burning stove now has a corner of its own, within a scenic frame. As is the case with our Brigitta GB, the small-sized wood stove: 

Bearing in mind the need to provide a certain amount of free space around the stove, in accordance with legal regulations, from flammable and construction elements, you can consider decorating the wall on which the product is installed with shelves or a bookcase. 
Always inform yourself about safety distances and the materials to be chosen in order to avoid any danger. 

We bet you hadn't thought of that. We go back to the first piece of advice. After all, what makes a wood stove special compared to other heating systems? That's right, wood. Many people, space permitting, decide to store wood functionally right next to the stove. Well-placed logs of wood next to your stove will take on a minimal yet contemporary decorative function, for a striking effect of warmth and homeliness. Plus, on a practical level, it is just as convenient! No more trips up or down stairs, in or out of the house to load wood and then put it in the stove. There are several ways of storing wood in view, for example by cutting out compartments in the masonry or plasterboard structure surrounding the stove, as is the case with our Tahiti.

Needless to deny it, fire creates atmosphere. The flame inside the hearth creates real magic in the home, a play of light and shades for a spectacle to be experienced. To see but also to hear: the crackling of the wood inside the hearth is a sweet sound perfect for relaxing evenings when it is cold outside or for gatherings with friends.