[Mark Henry]

Clean slate build using wood heating I'd consider a Kachelofen, a larger built in masonry heater.
You can even have the stove door outside, no mess inside, one less times handling each piece of wood. Thermal mass heating, heats up 24hs after going out, no wild room temp swings, common in northern europe gaining acceptance in NA. Many configurations, I've seen whole wall, heated benches, things like stairs built in...it's worth researching.

I can heat my house with my propane wood stove in the basement and the gas fireplace upstairs. After free firewood, propane is the rural easiest, cheapest buy in heat/cooking source and unless you don't have a driveway you can get propane. You can even get a propane fridge.
In a power outage I lose the fireplace AC fan, but it still works as it runs on 2xAA batteries. I only got a backup generator this year after living 22 years in the sticks, because I always had heat and a stove.

I have AC so I also use a couple mini-split heat pumps as much as I can.