My parents have renovated the house. They installed a new pellet stove to help heat the great monster. It's brilliant and will cut their heating costs by a significant amount.
The creepy part is, in order to make the stove work efficiently, air flow between the ground floor rooms is crucial. Thus, they now have a huge archway between two rooms that was formerly a wall, and a smaller opening like a viewing window between two other rooms. The room where I used to make love to my girlfriend now has a large peephole into the sitting room and a plain view into the entertainment room.
It's just too weird for me. It feels like something is missing. The past is sometimes as viscous as the present.
