Falling temps have me thinking about getting a wood stove.

I stopped by my local fireplace store last night, and saw a bunch of neat models.

The basic decision seems to be whether we go with a conventional wood stove (likely a Hearthstone), or one of the smaller upright stoves (likely a Morso or Jotul). The smaller stoves look great and have super low clearances to the back wall, but I'm a bit leery of committing to logs that are 12" or less. On the other hand, it's a small house and I live in the city: this ain't Little House on the Prairie.

Has anyone here been down this road recently? If so, what did you decide?