Amazing sized kitchen! Are you just replacing the doors? You could probably get away with that. You could then leave the long beech panel and that is your breakfast bar and the little corner units, and then do (warm) white poly shaker doors everywhere else? If you want more texture- maybe a pressed metal splashback powdercoated in a bronze or copper. I think the warm white, bronze/copper and beech would all work. Probably the cheapest kitchen reno ever!...for the size it is.

Now that's a cook's kitchen, are you keeping all appliances along with benchtops.

You said that you were keeping the same footprint, if the base cabinets are still in good condition would you keep them as is and just replace the wall cabinets with Bunnings paintable shaker style in a soft grey and paint the walls the same colour, still keeping the oven cabinet in Beech.

At the moment your kitchen has a lot of great stainless steel and wonder why the bronze cooper splash back, trend?,

I can see by the photo that the kitchen is a bit dark, so perhaps a mirrored splash back would reflect more light and would look great with the stainless benchtop and the soft grey.

If you are not keen on the mirror for the splash back and breakfast bar
the white tiles could be replaced with French Country white and grey
tiles

Beech wood looks great with greys and black & white.

I would look at replacing the Stools, Kmart have $25 dollar stools, different colours

You can use both spotlight and pendant lighting with these. PLEASE replace any open corner shelves with cabinets. This would be very cheap to achieve, good luck

Thanks. Getting new cabinets - drawers instead of cupboards. Brand new stainless steel appliances. We don't like the flat look of melamine in general but are OK with the Polytec Ravine grey textured melamine for the lower cabinets and 2 pac white for the upper. I wanted to bring in a 3rd colour for warmth so hence the coppery backsplash and pendant lights.

Such a beautiful big kitchen - possibilities are endless!

I love the fact that you are going for drawers rather than cupboards, much better utilisation of the space. I found some great images of some kitchens with different ideas that can be cost effective and long lasting.

You don't have to be boring to have a great looking kitchen!

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Hi Wally, because you are basically building a brand new kitchen now would be the time to update the floor as well, would be a shame to do all that work and end up with a dated floor, not cheap but well worth it for a great end result

Gray shaker doors two tone, bricks give you an idea what your copper splash back could look like, love your stainless benchtops, cheers

Sorry Wally the photo didn't load, I will try to find it

Other than the floor - I like your kitchen, but i can understand you wanting to have drawers.

If your current cupboards are wooden and in good condition - could you consider just replacing some of the units with drawers in another material possibly a matt charcoal or you could work with the current 60/70s vibe with pops of burnt orange, mustard or teal.

Updated lighting and new handles and possibly adding some open wooden shelves instead of the upper cupboards. Once other things are changed the tiles might be ok but a subway tile in burnt orange, charcoal, mustard or teal would look great and would add the warmth you are after. I would avoid red as it dates. enjoy your renovation.

Thanks. The idea of open shelves interesting but probably not for me as I like to hide any clutter or mess. The tiled floor is throughout the house,hides the dirt and keeps everything cool in the QLD summer so that will have to stay,even though it is dated. Thanks for the tip re red as I was thinking of introducing it but did not realise it would date.

You have a great size area to work with. I would definitely take you cupboards all the way up to the ceiling. ( the wall where your oven is.) Have you considered a complete wall off cupboards with an area either roll up or fold back for an appliance bench. You can still have your bank of draws below.

You could have a huge storage area on that wall and the options are many. Do a search on this site "kitchen storage wall". You maybe able to keep the cost lower by even putting in large sliding doors eleviateing the need for lots of small ones.

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can understand you not wanting to change the floor seeing that it's throughout the house, but perhaps just the kitchen/family/dining if open plan, with timber would work