Thanks for your kind comments! We have designed and completed the work on the garden ourselves (mainly my husband) so it means a lot. It's the dome bit that needs the colour, the base will have wood around the bottom and some tiles on the top. Thanks for finding those pictures, like the aqua one

Hi npost123, You have enormous space to decorate. Let us know if you need any RGB backlit glass, doorsteps or stairs, we will assign you with a personal advisor who will guide you through our buying process :).

I agree with the worktops and tiles being totally plain, but what colour should I pick? the only two light colours are white and beige. I am a little worried that an all-white kitchen would look too clinical. Would beige tiles look "dirty" as a backsplash? Should I keep the wood accent somehow or use wood cabinets? I have noticed designers matching terrazzo with wood a lot! Matching cabinets, worktops, backsplash, and floor is a headache to me!

I think the solution might be in your question. What room do you actually need? My experience with children is they will play all over the room and you will be left to pick your way through their mess. Do you need a home office? If you do you will probably want to shut yourself away and a walk through doesn't seem very "snug". I don't know your full situation but it's an easy mistake to render an existing room superfluous in an effort to create the new room of your dreams. Thick walls are not really a big obstacle to modern power tools. The reason that they can be expensive to remove in a house is the need to support all that heavy stonework above. You don't have that issue with a bungalow. Walk through rooms often work well as the working end of a kitchen diner. You naturally want the units on the perimeter and leave the centre of the room open. It's not a private space and people passing through are not an interruption. I would look again at your plans. The cost of removing a wall will be far less than building an extra 16sq m to replace the area you have made virtually redundant. Also the new wc doesn't look happy there, usually best to access them from a hallway or tucked into a corner.