@mazpt, yes of course. Here are a few more pictures showing how kitchen, living and dining, and outdoor deck and bbq area flow together. Oska kitchen is really neat in detailing; wood grain on the doors for example, are matched across as many doors as long as a 2.4m sheet allow. Floor turned out very nice too. Light natural colour, wide and long boards, laid length way all the way from front door to the back makes the space looks a bit bigger. Although it is still a floating floor, there are minimal floor movement that make squeak sound, most of the floor are feels solid. I hope that floor squeaking noise will settle over time.

The Ravine range from Polytec is visually a passable substitute for real timber and is also easier to maintain. The only thing you should consider is whether you have too much timber as you have it on the floor already. It's not a no no, it can work. This project has very similar colours you've described. People tend to choose a flat colour or neutral for the doors when pairing with timber floors because it is considered the safe option.

Hello, annb! No, not really :-( It will be part of a mini reno later this year, so I still have time up my sleeve. So many of the decisions (like flooring, paint colours, finishes etc) have a knock-on effect, that I need to decide on everything before I start. I think I need to get a cork flooring expert to come and look at our floors and tell me what is and isn't possible in terms of changing the colour of the existing floors. I still think Smartstrand carpet will be the choice for the carpeted areas. But who knows.....I'm feeling quite paralysed to the point of losing confidence about changing anything. I might need a professional to help me decide !

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!