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Dexter
IR panel heaters work pretty good, as already pointed out you can disguise them as other things!
Kick board electric heater (1-2kw) do a good job of just belting out some heat but noisey, get knocked and collect dust and filth like you wouldn't believe. Also dropping 5 litres of pasta on floor into it tends to make a hell of a mess.
Gas hob on to heat the place up is literally what us northerners do, kitchen already has it so why not use it? If you don't have a wet heating system that you can just tap an extra radiator into that room then a panel IR or a oil filled skinny electric wall radiator is pretty ideal. Rointe make some nice looking ones. Just beware, all electric heaters are basically 100% efficient, but electric kwH cost 3-5x more than gas kwH cost. So will always be more expensive to run vs output, compared to a wet gas heating system.