Thanks for sharing these on here, it does look truly stunning, know where to come when my kitchen needs sorting! If you hadn't mentioned it you wouldn't have know it wasn't a professional job so congratulations on finishing it to such a high standard.

Okay, so here are my concerns with the current layout: with no space to the other side of the sink, where will the dirty/clean dishes go. In our house, we put dirty dishes on one side and when unloading the dishwasher, put stuff that still needs to be dried off on the other side. But you may well have another system of loading/unloading. Also, items that can't go into the dishwasher need to be somewhere when dirty and then put somewhere when clean. So, in my experience a sink needs counterspace on two sides. You do need somewhere to put appliances, like the toaster/kettle, coffee machine or maybe a stand mixer? If they are behind doors that aren't pocket doors, you'll be working in a 'confined space', which doesn't seem very practical. I've been through the whole thought process recently and we've decided to do without doors in front of the breakfast counter. Very happy with that decision. I'll post pics so you can see how it looks. We also have kitchen doors that lead to the pantry behind the tall bank of cupboards. We've put the ovens above each other, because one oven we already had and the other one is new and a slightly different design. This left space for two pull out larders, one either side of the ovens. Then we have a tall freezer, tall fridge, double doors to the pantry. We also have a separate coffee corner. Hope this helps.

Shan M - I never did do the brick slips in the end! I managed to salvage a wall to the side of the kitchen so ended up just painting the back kitchen wall in the same colour as the units (well itt's a different tone due to the paint finish) and it's quite dramatic and I love it. If I had done brick slips, they would have gone on afterwards and been fitted around the units to save money. retrospectively, the brick slips cost the same as a full brick and although the original builder said it would be cheaper to tile with slips rather than to build a brick wall, the actual bricklayer (after he finished the job) disagreed! He said he could have done block work up the units and bricked all the exposed areas. Probably would have cost the same as tilers are not cheap! Doh.

Few things that i'd query [with Howdens?] extractor distance to hob, [there is an extractor there?], if its an induction hob then you can probably get away with a 500 minimum gap [depends on the extractor installation instructions] but you have the wall units right in your face though. then for the 2 drawer units you have on the hob side, i'd consider having a wider set under the hob then have a high line base at the end. for the peninsular you have 2 drawer units here, the salesperson has made you aware that you are losing the corner here [unless you plan on having a unit at the back of the peninsular], also as you have the dishwasher in this corner, be carefull the handles you choose don't clash [when you pull the top drawer out it doesn't hit the dishwasher door handle] agree with Kim about the oven tower, move the larder and i'd have the oven tower closest to the worktop so you have somewhere to put things down, but without measurements i'd want at least 1m between the oven tower and peninsular. the tower at the other end of the run also [unless the boiler is here] looks out of place and i don't think the shelves work, i'd have worktop all along, change the drawers from 3 units for 2 wider drawer units and have wall units above and the extra tower panel wouldn't be needed. drawers are expensive so i'd always try and have wider drawers as they're better value for money. i'd keep the handles the same, where you have horizontal handles [drawers and dishwasher] you can have a bar or cup type handle, then for the doors [base, wall and towers] you can have knobs. but its your kitchen and if the design is what you like then go for it.