I have a Vermont Castings wood stove that is set in the corner with a through-the-wall flue. In the past I had an excellent Lopi woodstove, also set in a corner. Both with windows in the front door, both excellent heaters.

Are you looking for a Fireplace or a Wood Stove? Do you only want it as an visual or are you looking to primarily gain heat?
Most Wood burning Stoves or inserts are going to only offer one plane for viewing the fire.

I swear by Vermont Castings for quality and heat dissipation.

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Both heat and visual.

Beautiful stoves @Forever_Free.

@Dutchess_III They are! It has gone up from 0 F to a whopping 1 F today. I have been sitting in front of it all day.

I would prefer an insert. We just don’t really have the room for a stand alone.

I didn’t realize you already had a fireplace into which you could insert an insert.

Vermont Castings insert = = > https://www.vermontcastings.com/products/montpelier-ii-wood-burning-insert

I don’t @canidmajor. But you can buy fireplaces that get inserted into a wall.

We had a fire place in our old house. Rick took a window out and stuck the firebox in the hole.

Before you can move forward you need to get the interior dimensions of your fireplace, and the easiest way to do this would be to have somebody who installs fireplace inserts for a living to come out and look it over.

We have a corner fireplace and wanted very much to put in an insert, and we even had an insert picked out. When the man from the woodstove shop came out and looked at where we wanted to put it, he said the firebox was too small to accommodate any insert.

For us, there won’t be a woodstove, but we will have nice fires there. Best of all we have a second source of heat in the event the electricity goes out.

@Dutchess_III Wait. What? A firebox that gets inserted into a wall? Please tell me that is for decoration. As you know I have a wood burner. – and use it alot. it is an insert that goes into an existing fireplace. My fireplace is in the center of te house and is made of brick and stone lined with steel. The insert goes in there. It also has a steel liner that goes around the actual wood burning stove.
I have the Lopi Freedom. The newer stoves are more efficient and burn much hotter than the old style, air-tight stoves with a single baffle. They have complex air and exhaust passages to preheat incoming combustion air and mix air and exhaust to effectively burn it twice. Some have catalytic converters on the outlets. They run hot. Very hot. The reburner kick on at 400 to 450F and then the temp climbs to 700F. That’s what makes them so efficient and clean.
Between the heat shields and liners there are air passages where room air is circulated with a built in fan so the heated air goes into the room.
The stove is rated for 70,000 BTU per hour and it works! I would be afraid to put it near anything flammable like a conventional wall.

I love my stove. But also give it a lot of respect. A block of steel and stone sitting at 700F inside your house deserves to be respected.

“Built into the wall.” Like virtually every fire place is.
Better?

What I want probably isn’t made. I want an L shaped fireplace that we can have built into a corner.

This is what started my search. But the only ones I can find are electric.

Do you have gas or able to hook up to gas? If not, perhaps propane?

I don’t want gas or propane. Wood is free and it actually heats. Gas is just for show.

@Dutchess_III I switched my fireplace to gas a few years ago and you’d be surprised how much it heats.

I also have 2 gas fireplaces and they do put out heat.

Gas will be the only way to get this in a residential home.

It’s also expensive.

But I think you’re right. I can’t get a cool, unique design in a wood burning fireplace.

Here are some ideaa = = > https://www.pinterest.com/vdebold/l-shaped-fireplaces/

We had a neighbor, in California, 70 years ago with L-shaped fireplace and a door in the garage to pass the wood into the living room.

@Dutchess_III You can get anything you want with the proper custom job and enough funds.

I know. But I’m not a millionaire. I’m just going to have to change my sights.