There have been threads about who burns firewood, and I’m admittedly not as serious as many of you. We have a wood stove in our walkout basement and a regular fireplace on our first floor. I stack the wood outside the basement door, on a concrete patio that sits under our first floor deck. The problem is that the deck isn’t keeping the wood from getting rained on, or worse getting coated with freezing rain. If we were going to stay in this house, I’d build a woodshed as close to the basement door as possible. We are discussing the possibility of buying a lot (hopefully wooded) and build a house. I don’t know whether this will have a walk out basement or not, but want to incorporate a wood stove in the basement and a fireplace in the first floor. Considering that we are going to design and build per our wants, I was trying to figure out what some of the best set ups would be. Do any of you have any especially creative solution or otherwise have a recommendation?