In my kitchen design, I allowed for a fridge freezer combo, as I live on a farm and as most farmers know, you can't have too many fridges or freezers to store food, that is purchased to last for a few weeks, living in my case, 25km from town. Having said that, I won't have a built in section to house the fridge/freezer, it will be a free standing area just like you have, to allow for changes in the future, as sure a night is dark and day is light, if you need or want a bigger unit, chances are it won't fit and I will never need to do any carpentry to take these future changes. I will also have a free standing dishwasher for the same reason, so in answer to your question, I would leave the fridge/freezer section as it is but as for the other antique fridge on the left of the picture, I would build a cupboard there instead for whatever you think you need to still have storage for, be it a broom closet/general storage or even extend the shelf and have draws or cupboards below etc...or the breakfast area as midesign0401 suggested, but I would have it in this spot as it appears in the photo at least, that the coffee maker is on the right of the sink already, so a more suitable breakfast area/prep area.

Hi Amy, its Aleisha here from Shop U in Bondi Beach. I am an interior designer/decorator and I have studied in renovating for profit and I can tell you now not to put in this complete effort if you are going to move soon, save your ideas for your new house. As the kitchen and bathroom are the biggest sellers in a house, I agree that you could 'spruce' it up. First, start looking at the other houses that are currently for sale in your area. After a number of viewings, you will start to see a trend in your local estate market. (You might not make back the money that you spend). If you want a quick update, paint the walls and go to your local warehouse for DIY cabinet and bench paint.You can actually replicate the look of a stone bench top by yourself for $80.00. You can re-tile over your existing tiles and add some new handles. I hope this helps xx

Well I can solve your hanging art problem. Find inexpensive bright artworks on canvas and mount them on foam/polystyrene boards. Then use mirror-mounting tape to mount it

Well it's is simple, as we will now have concrete floor that get huge amount of winter sunlight in that main living room area our thermal mass figure went up. with the use of phase change material in the roof it to give a thermal mass effect but lot less weight. What it does is stores the energy/heat and transfers it back into room a night. You must realise that this is a very exposed site and we had to get min 6 star rating. Our insulation goes like this from roof down 1, R7 Rock wool batts 2. 90mm Phase change Material 3. to support pcm you have to use 12mm ply sheeting in place of plasterboard 4. Float concrete 5. Electric in slab heating 6. Precast tilt, but played down slabs Underslab 7. R7 Rock wool again 8. 75mm foam batts 9. Reflective foil 10. Box in around steel and make air tight as possible Also all the glass is double glazed, argon filled and thermal shield. We had all that minus pcm and failed because standard way of accessing doesn't have it in calulations. i had to go and show council a sample of the stuff an how it works. This is not cheap but we can just about say that room will sit at a constant 21 to 24 degrees all year around without need for air conditioning . Phase change article