The Kitchen, with its original brick floor, has recently fitted cupboards and shelves.  The cooker is an electric Everhot Range in cast iron range runs off a normal plug. This has a two ovens...one hot and one warm...and a hotplate and a simmer plate. It also features a grill.

The 'Everhot'. 

The kitchen needed a 'soul' but had no fireplace. We researched and found the perfect solution: an Everhot Electric Range.  As the name implies, it is always on and so provides background warmth to that end of the house.  Its chunky and heavy and enamelled, just like an Aga or Raeburn, but  it is just one unit wide instead of two or more.  Even so, it has the same amount of oven space as much bigger ranges because the simple controls are in a small box in an adjoining cupboard. It uses a simple 13amp socket, so doesn't need expensive installation or a flue, and its very cheap to run. It has two ovens, plus a grill, a hotplate and simmer plate.   We chose  a lovely Burgundy enamel to complement the red brick floor.

 The little coffee mugs hanging from the cup-hooks are great favorites. They were found  in a dusty Orbec junk shop ( and we had to hunt all over the shop to find the set). They are crafty and hand-made but have a delicacy about them...the birds on each one are individual. They cost 1 Euro each and sum up the joy of hunting Brocante shops.