Hi. I agree with jacksplash and Man About the House - hopefully OnePlan will find you, because I'm worried about your layout. Some of the figures are difficult for me to read on your floor plan but I'm thinking about all the doors and where they lead and the traffic flow of people. Is there room to get around things, especially, say if the fridge door is open? Can someone get by or do they walk in front of the oven? If someone's cooking, is there room? If someone is at the sink, can another person walk by? If people are sitting at the new rectangular dining table, can you get passed to that side door, the double doors, or the door to the stairs? With the big fridge in that spot I'd do a practice and erect cardboard boxes that equal the depth of the fridge and more that represent the island and see if there really is room for it all. Heres a helpful blurb in case OnePlan doesn't pop in: http://www.metric.org.uk/kitchen-planning (Maybe my username should be "killjoy"?!)

I’m with Sonia. For me the tiles date the kitchen and the worktops are probably showing their age. If you can afford to replace them it will transform the kitchen and might well cost the same as professionally refinishing the doors. And I also agree that painting cabinets is best left to professionals but you could change the wall colour to make the room feel different. If it were my room I would try to find a Quartz worktop (try to find a warm colour as very white could make the cabinets look old) and I might well have a worktop splashback instead of tiles. And then you have a neutral kitchen and can apply almost any wall colour. Choosing this is easy- you either choose a colour consistent with other colour choices in the house or you pick a colour from the rug. I like Daisy suggestion of a soft green wall colour (but only if the blue tiles have been replaced.)

Hi I have Gemini Worktops Siena Gold worktops in my kitchen. I would describe the colour as "winter white" with a very subtle muted gold vein (not sparkly).They are not cream, they are white but they are a warm white not an icy/"blue" /cold white. I've attached a photo of a sample against the floor tiles and a sample of kitchen door. I also have a tiled floor covering approx 70 metres2. The grout is an off white but a note of caution with a light coloured grout, and that is that they do take some effort to maintain the colour, not so much in the lounge and other rooms but in the kitchen. I apply grout sealer which seems to help but a steam mop is a no no.

Sorry I meant kitchen cabinet colours . The wall itself wouldn’t be a problem as the cabinets would be full height