*moan*
We live in a very big, very old home. Darn near impossible to heat comfortably when it gets this cold, and it’s going to be around zero tonight.
Well I lived in an older big home for a time. You’re right hard to heat. So I found a solution. Closed off all rooms but one nearest the kitchen, took a beach umbrella and slide the poll down the side of an easy chair...opened it up just above the backside of the recliner...and put one of those electric oil heaters under it and ME!. Umbrella kept the heat hoovering down instead of rising to the ceiling. It was pretty cozy actually. Would watch movies or cuddle up with a good book. It worked very well...and worth the 70 dollars for the heater...that thing put off a “warm” heat you could feel all the way to your bones!
I suppose a large umbrella might do the same. But the beach umbrellas have a good size span.