Why this cabinet heater earns its place
There's a reason the coal-burner look never really goes out of fashion — it does something a plain electric bar heater can't, which is make a corner feel like somewhere people want to sit. The 505-118 Living Flame builds that timeless design into a genuinely practical cabinet heater, aimed squarely at the crisp autumn mornings and cold winter evenings that keep guests inside rather than out on the terrace.
It's built around a butane bottle housed and supported within the cabinet itself, so there's no trailing cable or fixed gas point needed — automatic ignition means it lights at the touch of a button rather than needing a match or a lighter fiddled in underneath. That combination makes it a genuinely portable source of ambient heat, helped along by the castors fitted to the base, which let it be wheeled between a snug, a lounge or a covered outdoor area as the evening's crowd moves.
At 420mm wide, 300mm deep and 720mm tall, it's a compact footprint for what it does, and at 9.1kg it's light enough for one person to reposition on its castors without difficulty. It's finished in black, a colour that reads as furniture rather than equipment, and sits comfortably in a hospitality lounge or snug rather than looking like plant that's been wheeled in from a storeroom.
