I live in the north, owning an AC is love owning a pony; It is cool to have plus a good conversation starter but totally unnecessary.
I don’t bother with cooling since the summer time season is short plus the afternoons are always cold.
I can get by with some box fans. What I absolutely focus on is heating equipment. I need a good furnace for the long, brutal Wintertide season, but for years I have depended on numerous oil heating systems in my home; The kitchen has a ventless heater, the study room uses a fireplace plus there is an ancient Moore furnace upstairs. What I am going to do is get down to one system. I have been remodeling room by room. I change the paint color, lights, switch plates, window plus lastly the floor. I am not doing carpet anymore but hardwood floors. Before I put that down, I am putting electric heated flooring in site. I then have heated flooring in the finished room. All the study rooms have heated flooring plus I just need to do the lavatory, however once that gets heated flooring, my Moore furnace will go. Then downstairs I need to do the study room plus the gas fireplace gets the boot. Finally I will update my kitchen plus detach the ventless heater. My goal is to have the whole new home completed with heated flooring in under 5 years. That way the floor isn’t going all at weird times. I also will like having no extra heating equipment kneeling around for a long time.