Woodstove in Kitchen? or Stove location preferences

I'm planning a remodel of an old farmhouse and am pondering stove location options. I'm attaching a JPG of the floor plan I threw together.

Short question: Is it dumb to put a big woodstove in the kitchen?

Long question: The masonry/ceramic lined chimney is located on the far side of an L-shaped floor plan and currently has a WonderWood circulating wood stove hooked up to it, located in the very back room measuring about 11x15. Needless to say this room gets hot, my digital thermometer blanked out around 125 the other day.

We push and pull the air though the next room, the kitchen, and over into the adjoining room, the living room where a scary old propane wall furnace occasionally roars to life. The stove heats the house, and in some cases overheats it. The upstairs has three bedrooms and a half-bath and matches the downstairs floor plan, for a total of about 1,700 sq ft.

What I'm proposing in the remodel is to install a new stove like a VC encore or Lopi Leyden, Quadrafire Isle Royale, etc. onto a hearth in the kitchen. My rationale is that it is more centrally located, can use the existing chimney, is visually pleasing as it can be seen from the living room (where a smaller gas cast iron stove will replace the wall furnace).

My concern is that the kitchen will now be the room that is 120 degrees, which is unnacceptable, as we do a lot of cooking, baking, canning, preserving, etc.

All feedback is welcome, especially ways to pay for the projects!

FYI--we live in northern Michigan, lots of winter (though dissapointingly mild this year); we plan to always heat primarily with wood as the house has no central heating system and would be hard to convert since it's part log and has a very limited crawl space beneath; we have 40 acres with a decent wood lot, plus are in the middle of national forest full of beech and hard maple.

Couple more things, and an updated floorplan that might explain things better.

The upstairs rooms, which currently have no direct heat, will most likely get electric baseboards that should never run except maybe in the kids' rooms when they're little (haven't actually had them yet), or if everything else goes to hell, or when we're away from home for awhile.

Also, the floor plan shows a planned addition of a mudroom, bathroom, etc that will add another 300-400 sq ft for a total of 2,000-2,100 sq ft.

Thanks again

The stairs face the front door. Ours is 90-100 years old too, the front half is dovetailed hand-hewn cedar logs, all the way to the gables. it's all plastered over but we plan on exposing it on the inside, but leaving it sided on the outside for that farmhouse look out, and rustic in.

Thanks for the feedback

The room the stove is in is only 11x15, so yes it gets hot. That's what the thermometer read, nothing but XXX and then when it cooled down it came back at 124. I'd say medium sized fire of hardwood. There are cabinets in that room and my wife had some candles stored in there, and chocolate bars. Whoops, nothing but puddles now.