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

I am no expert but as far as I know, the only way to have the fridge flush and functioning successfully is to have an integrated model.

Hi Elizabeth On the top and bottom corners of stone and reconstituted stone benchtop edges, these should be finished with a small 3mm to 4mm pencil round or bevel to remove the sharp corner but also to help protect the corners from chipping. If knocked by a hard object these pencil rounds or bevel corners help dissipate the force of impact and significantly reduce the risk of chipping. This principal also applies to cabinet door edges with a Two-Pack finish. These 3mm to 4mm pencil round or bevels are really quite unobtrusive overall to the eye when designing flush line cabinetry and do not take away from the square appearance but do help preserve this look and life of your cabinetry by helping protect all the edges. Hope this helps, Malcolm.

I'm having trouble working everything out here , looking at the bigger picture , and by the questions that have been asked , so is everyone else . Its an unusual shape , and then you said it is 4 rooms and 100 sq mtr . Then the plan shows 3 bedrooms , 2 bathrooms , a kitchen and a living area and dining . So is it 4 rooms , 4 bedrooms -- I can't understand sorry . No laundry ? Then I can't work out why you have 2 bathrooms , but neither are accessible from a bedroom -- a full ensuite or a connecting door . Personally , I would have wanted the bathroom on the same side as the 3 bedrooms to be either between the Master and Bed 2 , or an ensuite for the Master . And I'll echo siriuskeys query -- unless you are buying shell-only , I've never heard of a place where you 'supply' the kitchen , and even slightly stranger , you say the developer is supplying tiles . I would have thought either you choose and supply everything , or they do . And even if they supply , surely there would be adjustments to the price -- if you want genuine marble and they normally supply $5 Bunnings ones , you'd think they'd be a bit flexible , and say 'certainly , that will be $7k more or $3k less or whatever ? See why a lot of us are confused ?