My wife and I moved into a house before last winter. It is roughly a 1000 sq ft ranch in northeastern Ohio. The person who had the house before us replaced the oil furnace with an electric forced air furnace. We do not have natural gas where we live. I’m looking to switch to a pellet stove because for the price it cost to run the electric furnace we never feel warm. I have insulated the attic to modern standards and the house in the not so far past had been resided with insulation added, etc. I was thinking about adding a pellet stove in the living room and heating the house from there. However, I also had the thought because we do laundry and other things in the basement (air hockey, weight bench, hopefully an indoor archery area soon, etc.) I would like to try to heat the basement too. The basement is not finished, however it is professional waterproofed and I would like to finish it someday soon. The basement is full and is the same length and width of the upstairs and open. I wanted to know if I should/could either add a pellet stove in the basement and either use the already cut return floor registers and heat the basement and the house with 1 stove. A ~2000 sq ft pellet stove or if it would be better to just heat the house from the living room with a smaller stove. I uploaded a little diagram of the layout of the house. There is a 1/2 bath in the back bedroom and random closets but I didn't include those. I'll try to add some actual photos today too. I appreciate any help, suggestions, thoughts, knowledge transfer, etc. Also, no in the picture, the kitchen has two open doorways to the living room area, on on each side and a door to the landing for the stairs.