Kim, as you would know, gloss surfaces reflect more imperfections, smears and fingerprints than satin or matte surfaces, and more so in black.

Gloss surfaces are ever popular, but quite a dated aesthetic.

I suggest playing on a contrast between your shiny stone surfaces with either a textured black or satin finished door.. A good example is a matte black door with a timber texture like those of laminex' s impressions range.

that way, the visual texture will add textural interest in an otherwise simple, but practical layout. Galley kitchens have great workflow, but can lack personality, so differentiating your finishing with confident and bold choices and innovative inclusions as in technology and storage solutions will offer the impact other layouts can achieve.

I designed the black and white kitchen in the essa stone brochure, and used a textured black teamed with white stone, obviously the hero, and also a galley, the emphasis was on an architectural and textural form and beautiful surfaces.

Definitely classic and crisp, and will really compliment a minimalis or classic interior, without risk of dating.

Good luck. MLDESIGN

have a look at the Caesarstone / Polytec colour pallette brochure (on line I think) where their designers show a blending and contrast laminex for doors for each of the Caesarstone colours, found it very helpful. If you're going gloss black suggest you look at textured matt laminex maybe, but not totally throughout the kitchen, may be do fronts of cupboards below bench level a silk white or another lightish colour, and also do splashback in light colour. Hope you post pics, Good luck