Hahaha, I can't imagine a PRO would give you a hard time in this forum! It sure sounds like you've got your hands full. Gosh. I'm in the states. East Coast. In my experience for this area I've worked with a designer most recently who charged $150 per hour. We spent about 6 hours over a 2 day period where she advised & kept me out of trouble getting a color palette together. We went shopping and she helped me chose bathroom tile and plumbing fixtures, kitchen appliances. She's very efficient and we accomplished everything I needed. She billed me $500 at the end of the month and I pd her like that. I know it can get more expensive and complicated when you want them to choose fabrics, furniture etc.

Hi Claire, our fridge is exactly 912 wide too - maybe the one you like is from the same range? Mine is an LG 4 door (712 litre). Anyway, I can tell you that this fridge has to have a minimum clearance each side of 20mm, so overall minimum space is 952, so your space of 930 would not be sufficient, and that's not addressing the need to open the door yet. I worked out it needs 400mm on each side to open the doors fully (a lot I know!). This could be a continuation of bench space or open space, but not a wall. We are about to renovate, and as oklouise can attest to, had many a design dilemma in trying to find a good position for the fridge! (I ended up adding 800mm to the extension!) French door fridges are very appealing, but I think you would find that appeal fades very quickly with the annoyance of trying to get at the fruit/veg drawer on that side. In practical terms, a single fridge door that opens away from the wall would make life easier.

I could spend $50-100k on my kitchen , but I won't . Right now , it is clean , tidy , it all works , and I have painted and tiled and laid new flooring . I have every appliance I need and then some ( a pizza oven and sausage roll maker and ice cream spirally thing probably aren't necessities , but just about are now after having them haha ) . More storage would be good , but thats a double edged sword -- I've built a 2nd 400sq mtr shed for my 'toys' , and if I want any more I'll have to sell haha .

this is a much bigger changes than just a wall and involves foundations, floor and roof as well as plans and Council Development application but the plans imply that you will be making the building smaller which is a very unusual choice but you will need to ask a builder for quotes