Thank you for the answers. What is the length of the wall separating the kitchen and the hall? She could possibly put the fridge next (under) to your current X and put some over the counter storage (larder/appliances store) where the X is... With the boxing of the fridge lining up with the door wall, she can then put a small dresser/sideboard in front of that full width, next to the door. Those two combined should add a good amount of storage. If this works but she still thinks she needs more storage, or if the dimensions don't fit, then a U shape kitchen indeed, but don't make the new length go too far... you want to be able to get in an out of the kitchen space easily! Add a table against it as Minnie and Jen P suggest, possibly with a built-in bench (with storage inside) against the left wall... The joinery could even continue all the way down to the window wall as bookshelves or any other type of storage... Good plan to play with an existing sofa for now. Stainless steel sinks are ok, hopefully it will be an undermount. These decisions are pretty daunting I know but also very exciting!

Thanks all. 1. A carpenter/fitter is coming around on Sat for the kitchen - I'll ask him for a quote for this too. In the meantime, I've been googling/thinking, and saw this from IKEA: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/washstands-taps/wash-stands/fullen-wash-basin-cabinet-white-art-70189041/ (& pale green countertop: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/washstands-taps/wash-stands/viskan-countertop-pale-green-art-70354804) I just need to remove a slice of the base at the rear for it to be level with the top of the basin. Hope that doesn't look weird. 2. Will paint the door frame - satinwood or similar. Easy one, that. :) 3./4. Will look at the navy/teal/dark grey wallpapers and paint. I think a combination of them may look really good. Have requested some samples - just waiting for them to arrive now! Great. Can't wait to get going now.

Thanks for comments. Daisy- yes this is an issue we are trying to deal with, ideally we would have 2x tall FF’s but if we convert the to base units, then 4x600 base fridge/freezer units take up more floor space than 2x tall 600 wide FF’s, and will mean that there is not enough floor space for everything else we need in the kitchen! Jonathan - like the plan, however the bottom right hand corner has an opening to a storage area so tv couldn’t go there. The engineering bricks are the least of our worries I think as they are only 100mm deeper than the rest of the wall, so I assume we can just put up some simple 100mm studwork to even out the wall to allow ease of placing kitchen units etc.

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