They had a wood burning heating plan that never operated
When I purchased our beach house I was a little frustrated by the look of the bedroom. The previous homeowners absolutely wanted their beach house to assume love a chalet. They had wood siding up multiple walls and a half wood on the other a singles. There was a stone pad that housed a wood stove as well. It looked just awful. The first thing I did was sand the wood walls and paint them white. The half walls are half white and half light grey. I left the wood ceiling but now it pops with the white. I then had to sledgehammer the stone pad off our floor and retile the bedroom a classy grey, and removing the wood stove was a mess though. It was cast iron and just about impossible to move. I then had to go into the attic to remove the big pipe linking it to the ceiling. They had the woodstove professionally vented and linked to the roof. Right now I have that old heating plan out and our hole in the ceiling patched. I still need to hire roofers to remove the protrusion and repair the hole up there. What makes matters worse is that the old homeowners didn’t even use that system. They had a wood burning heating plan that never operated. It was totally disinfect inside the pipe and the stove. I easily sold it to a heating corporation for a wonderful price based on the condition. Why own a woodstove and only use it as a decorative piece though? It was taking up so much space.