Just Beautiful! We are about to undergo a renovation, including kitchen and I think I have the exact same pine kitchen as you and orange hoop pine floor boards. I was wanting to stain the floor boards too but was unsure. Your kitchen style is very similar to what I had in mind (white shaker cabinets, butler sink, subway tile splash back and I even currently have the same fridge as you) and I'm excited because now I can show my husband the transformation including the stained floor. Are you able to give any details e.g. colour of stain for floor/ floor treatment, where you bought your sink, and island bench dimensions please. Many thanks!!

Thanks for your comments so far. Adding to the posts is something another friend has also recommended so seems to be the general consensus and we'll most likely go with that. We are in a tropical area Brandi and I'd love some colour perhaps on the deck walls though unsure what colour and whether we'd need to extend that same colour out to the extension wall also (the white wall in photo) or leave that in Dune? Would that look a bit strange? also if we don't look at adding battens to the ceiling how would it look painted in Surfmist? I'm not to keen on a white ceiling as it can be quite bright out there during the day already.

Anne, go have a good look at new sinks, when I did my kitchen renovation I loved my sink and there was very little similar on the market so as I thought mine was fine I wanted to keep it. The plumber had to remove it to replace the bench tops and could not guarantee it would not be damaged because of the sealing necessary around sinks. When I saw the new ones though and later seeing it in my kitchen, the old one would have just been so wrong, it would have really let the whole kitchen down because it made the old one look so sad in comparison. A new bench top has to be cut for a sink anyway so the old one should survive any alternations IF you have a good tradie doing it. I painted first but I ended up selling the house before I did the flooring so I didn't sand. That issue was raised but don't think there is a problem, they can sand to the skirting without damage. Check with a floor sander to be sure. This is a photo I took of my old pantry before I finished filling it though. This is only half of it, the other side is mirror reversed, but you can get the idea of how each shelf can be adjusted and you can fill the shelves with like sized items. I did not think of this, the kitchen people just did it and I was so grateful because of the way it turned out. I think the shelves are about 350mm deep - held all my big things, but wasn't so deep I couldn't see everything clearly. For cleaning it was easy to just empty a shelf and take it out too which really made the bottom shelves easy to get to and clean.

Could you swap the fridge with the wall oven, going by your photo both fridge and Wall Oven would fit side by side. I would definately have the fridge on the cook top wall and not on the other side of the kitchen. I see by the photo that the timber beam could be in the way, I would speak to your plumber who should have a simple solution on ducting the range hood. A simple one built into a special cabinet above the cooktop can recirculate or be ducted outside by either exposed stainless tube for your industrial/country look or have the ducting boxed in, the ducting can be flexable so no problem avoiding beams.