Based on your description of an industrial style kitchen, an exposed s/s rangehood would actually work really well too... even though my personal preference are the concealed ones, I also think they look better with a cooktop / built-in oven, whereas the exposed ones tend to suit more the freestanding ovens... imo

Definitely no! It is actually not good for energy flow to have a mirror anywhere in the bedroom, according to the ancient art of Feng Shui. I can see it's appeal, but it would be off putting I think.

conduit can sometimes be recessed into a brick wall and rendered over if you need an extra powerpoint or hidden inside wall cabinets for a built in rangehood but the other prob with range hoods is that they make so much noise and i'm not aware of any that completely removes cooking smells but i agree, unless there's some regulation that demands a rangehood, it's probably easier to clean the wall. The colour of the tiles is such a personal choice but for your kitchen i prefer the same white subway tiles for the splashback and the column as i think that the dark tiles would feel closed in up the side wall but, perhaps the subways could be laid vertically (200mm x 100mm subway?) around the benchtop and horizontally for the column with one vertically tile up the sides of the column and a tile trim around all the raw tile edges...then you have to decide if you like the horizontal tiles laid in a brick or stacked pattern or a quick look at "subway tiled splashback" on HOUZZ revealed these photos...good luck with it!

Hello Tallitha For your question "How high can you mount a rangehood?" and "I can see minimum heights but not maximum" the minimum is related to Fire regulations and so there actually is no maximum. You can install a canopy hood higher than the standard 700mm if that is what you want. The problem with this are; two fold, One being the balance of aesthetics to the adjacent structures, which you can decide on how this looks for yourself. The second is the extraction efficiancy of a Hood / Canopy where the higher it is placed away from the source of the vapors, the more these vapors disperse beyond the cachment area of the the hood. How bad this extraction will be at any set height will then depend on how many cubic metres of air the extractor's fan you choose can move. Some Hoods extract as little as 420 cubic meters an hour (m3/hr). To compensate for the extra height you could consider for an example a hood like the Falmec Latina that can extract 1140 m3/hr or a model upto 2010 m3/hr when compared to say a standard canopy hood like the Robinhood RWC3CL9SS that moves 736 cubic meters. Though something like the Falmec Hood is still not the price you mentioned above, you can however expect that a hood with a higher capacity will cost more than one with a low capacity. I hope this information helps. Regards Malcolm