We had 2 cold nights in Miami where the temperatures dropped under 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Typically, room temperature here is between 78-80 with the air conditioning running. Last night, before I went to sleep, the bedroom was 65 degrees. Certainly, too cold for me!
What’s normal room temperature for your climate?
South of Boston. In the winter, we like to keep the house a nice, toasty 65-67 degrees. We have several zones. The living (kit.LR, etc) goes down to 54 overnight. Bed/bath area around 60.
Wow. Good for you. How do you keep warm enough at night? (Even your daytime temps are chilly to me.) I was just thinking yesterday that I should get us all some lofty comforters–or what about electric blankets? Obviously they take energy, too, but is it significantly less than producing a few more degrees of heat in the house?
Carol
We have two zones, due to wood heat and insulation that is dubious or non-existant:
Two hot
Two cold
I’m a big fan of Tupperware for flutes! Now, if they could make Tupperware big enough for my octave mandolin…
Ouch!!
I was just teasin’…
It’s just what we like. The house is pretty air-tight, so we often have a window open. As it gets cooler in the fall, we just put off starting the heat until it’s cold. When we do, it warms things up just fine. We just top out in the mid 60s instead of going to the low 70s.
Humans adapt right!?!
mark
During the winter there’s an average of 17 celsius (63F) in the living area during the day, it may get down to 59 over night, bedroom likely to be colder. If temperature in living room goes below 16 (61F)during the afternoon I light an extra turf fire which will bring temp up to 20 C (68F) (as it is now) which feels quite warm (see pic below). During frosty/windy days we may be a few degrees down from that.
Wow, I must be more cold-blooded than most (other than Peter) Right now in my office it’s 64 degrees Fahrenheit (around 18C) and that feels quite warm to me…any warmer and it would be too hot! We don’t have air conditioning here so in the summer it’s frequently in the mid to upper 90s here in our apartment and I really suffer…I work at home and it’s hard to stay awake much less work when it’s 95 inside with high humidity.
At night we let the temperature drop into the upper 50s. The exception is my girlfriend’s teenage daughter, who jacks the heat in her room to the upper 80s and keeps it there day and night. Each room has its own thermostat (we have electric heat, like most places in Québec). When she moved in with us a few years ago, our electricity bill doubled. I turn it down when she’s not home, but it doesn’t help much.
you should see his 20x30 blue tarp, strung between a cedar, two hemlocks and an alder…where he stores his firewood.
oh…wait…that was me! 
We use multifuel stoves too, one of which I would light in mid-afternoon on a day like today (a bit raw and windy) and the one in the room where my computer is in the evening if necessary (it isn’t always). Viewing your cat from a distance, it would appear that I have an identical feline to yours. He is now in front of the fire, where he would reside permanently if I let him.
In fact there are another five cats. We have a big Rayburn solid fuel range which heats six radiators, the hot water supply and takes care of most of the cooking. During the coldest months I have that ticking over on anthracite, it burns turf the rest of the time (even in summer I light it most days to heat water, do the cooking and to keep the house dry). The stove in the picture brings up the heat very quickly so if we use it at all, it takes only a minimum of fuel to keep us warm for hours. The house also still has two tiny little cast iron fireplaces that we did use for a while just after we moved in and the house was still semi-derelict.
Rayburns are the best. I’ve spent a lot of time in Scotland in winter and the little things I find myself missing the most (after the landscape and the people I was with) are sitting by the Rayburn and those “pulleys” (drying racks for rainsoaked clothes that hang from the ceiling). I’ve always dreamed of having a Rayburn and a pulley in my own home one day. 
That does look so cozy, Peter.
But really, at night, aside from body heat, what’s the best way to keep warm? One of the things I always liked about the Little House books was that one kid or other was always snuggling up under some very warm something or other, when they were finished with their maple candy, of course. Whatever they had for warmth, that’s what I want. I just can’t stay asleep when I am so cold, so I guess a lofty comforter (don’t like the idea of down) would be the way to go? Maybe some Eddie Bauer meant-for-camping item?
Carol
We use a comforter with a flannel duvet cover, and then when it gets really cold (I can’t sleep without the window open at least a crack, so sometimes in winter it drops down into the upper 40s in our bedroom) we put a quilt on top of that. That is plenty warm! I even have a flannel nightcap that I used to use when I lived in a drafty 1840s house in Vermont, and that helps too.
We don’t have air conditioning. Mid to low 70s generally. Can get warmer and (only now and then) colder.
Having lived in very dry climates (Utah/South East Idaho) and more humid climates (most recently here in Hawaii). It seems to me 65 degrees (or 50 -65 in general) feels colder in a more humid climate as opposed to a drier one. 65 at the coast in California often called for a sweater or a sweatshirt, where the same in the mountains of Utah was often short sleeve time.
This hovel is so leaky the curtains indoors sway when its windy outside. If I can keep it up to 15°C in the winter downstairs I’m doing good. Upstairs in the bedroom is about 0-5°C in winter. I can see my breath. The trick to sleeping at these temperatures is to keep your feet warm.
djm
During the winter, I have the heat set for 66 when I’m home, and it goes down to 60 when I’m not home and at night. 66 is actually a bit warm, but I spend most of my time in the lower level of my split-level house and it’s colder than that down here - I have a space heater I usually turn on, too. (along with wearing sweaters, etc). When I am upstairs, I’m very comfy in the 66, and I love sleeping in the cooler temps, snug under my comforter.
In the summer, I have the air at 78 or 79, which is too warm for me, but then the lower level deal pays off because it’s much cooler down here in the summer, too! Sleeping can be difficult in the warmer temps, but the ceiling fan in my bedroom helps. I’m just too darn cheap to turn the air any lower.
Hm, yes we have one of those over the range.