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What is the average temperature you keep your house at during the winter season? We like it at 19 but have a little warm blast to 21 degrees for the morning wake up.  
 
Apparently some people find that cold.

A couple of degrees in temperature can make a home feel cool if the humidity is either to high or to low. We went to baseboard heaters for heat when we built our house, and do have different settings for different rooms. I like the bedroom at 12-13 C, which the better half considers to cool, the kitchen is kept around 18-19, and living room 20-21for daytime living.

But what made you decide to go with electric baseboard over gas, or a forced air electric? Was it for more control on individual rooms?

When we built our home they had brought natural gas into thecSouris area, but not for rural customers, and in the ten years previous to us building our house we had lived in a mobile with extremely thin walls. Part of my decision was because over those ten years we saw propane prices make some extreme swings and electricity seemed to make more of a predictable increase.  
I was pretty budget conscience when we built, so running wire and a breaker, thermostat and baseboard came in far cheaper than a forced air electric and all the duct work. Over the thirty years since we built there has only been one baseboard that has needed to be replaced.  
Now that the kids are gone we do leave some bedrooms turned down around the 10C temp. For me it was a combination of thing that took us the direction of baseboards, but the convience of individual room temperature was a bonus.

20 during the day and 18 at night.