I've no advice, just commiserations. There's a house just been built where I park my car to go hiking. Really great section and fairly nice big house, seven figure property. Saw the family, young. The front of the house has been clad shockingly, real amateur-hour stuff, and it's all finished. What a nightmare. There must be professionals out there who can clean up these disputes, I guess they charge a bit. A big part of the problem is the prevalent building style. The builder/carpenter seems to do as little as possible and sub-trades do so much and they all rely on each part of the process being right. Fibro everywhere needing rendering and painting.Tin fascia with fibro soffits. Combine this with brickwork. Plasterboard walls and ceilings usually lined, plastered and painted by three sets of tradesmen. And the builder doesn't co-ordinate the work because he considers it the subbies' responsibility. Not to mention the designers/architects who put these materials/systems together in difficult places without any attention to detailing how it should work. Why all this? It's an economical system? I dunno. But done properly it's okay. So OP, good luck, hope everyone does the right thing.

I'll admit the finishes aren't to my taste. The kitchen in fact is almost a carbon copy of a staff kitchen in a company I used to work for. The entire house has an office building kind of vibe to me. But lets assume the owners really like that look, yeah okay it's a fair redo of an interior. I just wonder what a 'new home feel' is, I've never experienced that feeling, let alone sink a whole pile of cash into trying to get it. People are strange.

I really love that chandelier and the beautiful timber flooring . The decor has indeed a luxurious feel but still warm . A minor quibble from my own taste is the plethora of ornaments . You must have very happy clients as their brief has been filled to the letter .

love what you have done with in the renovation. Clever use of the areas and combining the new pantry into the space. The gas cooktop raised a question for me though. When I was doing my kitchen which had a gas cooktop I had to meet a minimum space requirement from the splashback wall behind the hob to the edge of the hob. There doesn't appear to be any distance between your hob and the splashback? Do you know if this requirement no longer exists?