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Have you considered using a window as your kitchen splashback? Splashback windows can be placed behind your benchtop and come in two forms: fixed or operable. Both showcase your view and invite natural light into your kitchen. Operable splashback windows provide for extra ventilation and airflow. Perfect for dimly lit kitchens as well as a practical, stylish, and modern kitchen feature. Which style do you prefer? - A Fixed or Awning window splashback. Option 1 - Fixed Window Option 2- Awning Window

We have the same challenge with those cream window frames. If you use window coverings (I will probably add warm white blinds and sheers) think about what they will look like from the outside as well. Stark white will look wrong with our style of home. I love plantation shutters, but again, can’t have them because they’d look terrible from outside.

Hey mate yes you need to decide the stone bench top finish height first , and at frame stage the window needs to be installed in such a way so that the bottom frame of the window is is set to that exact height. As you wont be able to move the window up or down at later stage.