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wrote:
I have a 100 year old colonial in MA with one room on the 2nd floor
with no heat source. Nothing. No radiator, no baseboard heater - it
was just built w/o heat.

The room is about 12 x 10, my wife uses it for her changing
room/giant
closet. We keep the door open to get heat from the hallway, but it
is
always 10-15 degrees colder than the rest of the house.

How can I get heat in this room without going broke? I am thinking
single baseboard heater with it's ownn thermostat - does something
like
that exist? Can it be plugged into a wall outlet or does it need to
be
hard wired into the main box?
Thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

Bluesman

How is the rest of the house heated? If you have forced-air heat,
that's easier to tap into than if it's a water or steam system. But
for a quick easy fix, an inexpensive electric heater with blower should
easily suffice to raise the temp of a small room 10 or 15 degrees. If
it's only a matter of comfort while changing, you could put your
plug-in heater on a timer (the heavy-duty kind) and have it just go on
for an hour or two in the morning.