10 wood-burning stoves that will make you want to ditch your furnace

Thos futuristic-looking wood stove was actually built out of an old sea mine from the 1940s. These days, its main function is heating this home (and looking extremely cool).

These days, wood stoves are more than just heating devices. They're also design pieces.

Thos fire-engine-red stove from Vermont Castings doesn't just blend into the background. It's a bold room accent that's sure to start a conversation.

With its update 1950s style, this is another stove with a modern aesthetic.

Somehow, this stove manages to look retro without looking like any wood stove that's ever existed before. It seems to draw its inspiration from the off-kilter shape of vintage radios.

This cast-iron hearth has the appearance of a beautiful old wood stove, but with modern efficiency and heat output. We love the way it works with this yellow colour scheme.

The Bruno woodburning stove is all about the heat, with hot air tubes that use the natural rising force of the heat to push hot air into your home without using a blower.

Technically, this is a pellet stove, but not a wood stove, but it's so classic, we had to include it. Pellet stoves don't burn regular wood, but wood pellets, which are made from sawdust or wood chips. Pellet stoves also produce almost no smoke. They're clean, green, and (in the case of the stove above) quite attractive.

Here's another pellet stove, this one has more of a stately, classic look.

This rounded, glass-fronted stove looks like something you'd find on a spaceship, and it also has a cool matching storage space for chopped wood.