Thanks Guys for your lovely comments. This project was an amazing transformation by opening up the space. We also love the warm colour scheme with the marble look stonetop. Cheers

Beautiful spacious kitchen with plenty of storage and style. Also love the hallway photo of your Reno.

My kitchen is primarily 'burnt red' and the red bricks , which are slightly less brown than the burnt red . the ceiling is white , with stainless downlights , the rest is red , charcoal , white , the odd fleck of grey and black . The floor and blind are brown wood . I don't consider it overly decorated . It opens to the dining room , which is also a natural wooden floor , a black glass top table with black legs , black steel framed chairs with red leather seats and backs , an almost black wooden sideboard , a couple of big colourful abstract paintings , and 3 walls are wallpapered in a wheat weave pattern , the 4th is that red brick . There are 2 large wooden venetians too . The lounge is , yep , red leather lounge suite and extra chairs , there's even a red leather footstool that is heart-shaped ! The TV cabinet is custom made and is nearly 4 metres long , all wood with a dark stain . The floor is wheat coloured carpet with a large shaggy red rug , a black glass coffee table , a 65 inch TV and 7 speaker home theatre , a couple of those polished search light spot lights on wooden tripods , and several original paintings ( only 1 is an abstract , the rest are people , although a couple are Picasso-esque ! ) . Not much white , not a great fan . I'll put up some pics in a couple of years when I've tidied hahaha .

My kitchen is for food preparation. Punkt. Apart from the fact that it has no table/surface suitable for dining, work or crafts, etc., and certainly no casual seating space, I wouldn't actually want to do anything else in there. I'm not a fan of open plan design at all, hence my choice to live in a 1930s apartment with its original floorplan preserved. A simple door is a wonderful thing for keeping the smells, steam, grease and general mess of cooking away from my furnishings, books, audio equipment and other technology, not to mention my guests who do *not* need to watch me cook or distract me by trying to chat to me while I do it! :)