When the stove becomes the room: anchoring open-plan spaces.
Five projects with architects across Belgium, France, and Norway — and what they teach us about heating as architecture.
Articles by Inge Vermeulen
Stories from the foundry, maintenance notes, and moments around the fire.
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Six small living rooms that put the fire at the centre.
From a 28 m² flat in Oslo to a converted barn in the Ardennes. Real homes, real installations, real heating problems solved.
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Why your stove glass goes black — and how to reverse it.
The chemistry of soot deposition, the physics of secondary air, and three habit changes that keep glass clear for years.
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Reading a Norwegian Figures stove from the 1960s.
A field guide to identifying, valuing, and restoring the original DOVRE designs from the brand’s first three decades.
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The case against decorative- only fireplaces.
If a fireplace doesn’t heat the room, it shouldn’t be there. A polemic from our chief engineer on why “ambient” heating is...
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A cabin in the Norwegian fjords, four hundred kilometres from a power line.
Off-grid living, a single 8 kW SAGA, and what one family learned about heat, time, and weather over fifteen winters.
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Chimneys: the part of the system everyone gets wrong.
A diagnostic checklist for poor draught, slow start-ups, and reverse flow. Most stove problems aren’t stove problems.
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Why your stove glass goes black — and how to reverse it.
The chemistry of soot deposition, the physics of secondary air, and three habit changes that keep glass clear for years.