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Since my Wonderwood turned out to be less than a wonder ...

I'm heating a 300 sq. ft. tiny house in southwest Tennessee. Our coldest nighttime temps generally hit the mid-teens and our heating season runs from mid-October through the end of February, although on many of those days I only need a fire at night. Obviously I'd like to get away with as little money as possible, but I don't want a stove that is so cheap as to be inefficient and a pain to deal with.

What should I buy?

*Edited to add that I love the idea of an RMH but don't have the ability to build one. I need something I can purchase ready to install*
 
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Hearth.com is probably your best resource for such advice.  It's a forum dedicated to wood stove heating.

ETA: I'm not affiliated with them.  I am a member (under a different user name) but have been inactive for quite some time.
 
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here is a place selling small stove s  -- I know absolutely nothing about this company, but it caters to mobile tiny homes     https://www.tinywoodstove.com/product-category/stoves/

Our small cob studio on my property uses a used, vintage cast iron Morso Squirrel and it works very well. I think the cob studio is 500sq ft, and it gets hot quickly with the morso squirrel, usually one small quick fire a night in winter is all that is done.

Morso still makes small stoves, more expensive than the dwarf stoves, but a very long track record

here is one link to show what it looks like and price, likely you would buy it from a local woodstove store in your area, or get lucky like we did and find a used one

https://www.rockymountainstove.com/morso-1410-wood-burning-stove/

mine looks like this, but no glass window, so mine is older than this link but otherwise has this shape.  

https://www.cannedheat.com/product/morso-2b-standard-wood-stove/

 
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