My grandmother lives in a beautiful part of a country across the pond.
The summers in this place are balmy with low humidity.
The winters are cool and mild. It’s only very occasionally that there is somewhat of a heatwave in the summer. In the winter time there might be a light dusting of snow on rare occasions, just a few days out of the year. In short, it is a place where climate control is practically unneeded. I love going to visit my grandmother just as much for the pleasure of her company as for the pleasure of the beautiful weather that I get to enjoy where she lives. She does have climate control in her home but it is the most basic and it is hardly ever used. Your home is beautiful and quaint, but small. There is a gas stove that she uses once in a great while in the winter time. It is located in the kitchen, as you would expect. The home is small enough to where the living room and the kitchen and the dinette are all warmed by the stove. On such cold winter evenings, she will sleep either in her rocking chair or on the couch within proximity of the warmth instead of going upstairs to her bed. In the summer, if it’s a little too warm in the neighborhood she does something different. There’s a window air conditioner in her bedroom that she will use. It easily keeps her entire bedroom nice and cool. Virtually any other time of the year, she simply opens the windows for a nice breeze!