I have a couple thoughts. I built a ~1900 sf ranch with a basement. I have a Napoleon woodstove in the basement and an RSF woodstove/fireplace on the first floor. The basement: slab is insulated with R10 foam, walls have R10 foam and R-19 fiberglass and rock wool walls. The main floor is double stud insulation 2x12 walls with dense pack cellulose. I have outside air intake to both stoves. Here's my experience:
I prefer to keep the basement stove... I cycle it down to glowing ash covered embers but still, the basement overheats, getting to 80-82 degrees. I typically run the basement 24/7. We use the RSF fireplace on the first floor in the shoulder season because it tends to overheat and my floor plan impedes heat movement. But the RSF is so efficient that it uses very little wood. Besides the wood, we heat with a propane fired boiler with radiant floor heat. I'm not really satisfied with the system because with the house so well insulated, it tends to overheat. But running small loads in the stoves cycles the stoves constantly. Also, despite having outside air, it's not sufficient to prevent having the stoves sometimes backdraft, especially when it's foggy out. We also need to be careful not to run the stoves, the clothes dryer, bathroom vents and kitchen stove fan all at once or we get backdrafting.
Because my home is tight and well insulated, my ideal system would be forced hot air with a wood boiler hot water coil in the air handling unit. The boiler would be located in a semi-conditioned space like a garage where an outside air supply is easily provided, and where the mess, ash dust, wood handling, insects and mold/fungi spores are kept out of the living space. I'd circulate the hot water from a wood boiler to the HVAC's air handling unit. I realize this doesn't help for power outages, but our home has sufficient insulation and mass that we don;t lose much heat in 24 hours. And most power outages are only a few hours, if that.
If you want the fireplace, I recommend looking at the RSF units. They accommodate duct work for either natural convection or fans. For cooking, we really haven't needed to use our wood stove. Our propane cook stove doesn't require electricity.
My thought is to consider installing a wood boiler in the garage and integrating it into the HVAC system.