Hi Amy_kate, The pendant is an Australian designer piece available through White Elk Interiors. Please send me an email if you'd like one sourced or help finding something similar - hello@whiteelkinteriors.com. Cheers, Janice

Gosh what a funny turn around - this discussion started right after I had finished my last kitchen and now it is revived just as I'm going through all this madness again trying to replace a kitchen in my new home .............. when I can find someone interested in doing some work. Jennifer, I'm leaning to Bosch appliances if they meet my requirements. One of my joeys lives in Germany where Bosch and Siemens (made by the same company apparently) are made and are very highly esteemed. Because I have so much renovation work to do on this house, I'm watching my pennies a bit so I will probably stick with a Dishlex Dishwasher that has always served me well and these days they are extremely quiet too, but I am looking at Bosch for the oven and cooktops. In earlier posts I praised the Fisher and Paykel oven and cooktops, but then discovered a BIG flaw in the design of the oven - it had a double glass door with a gap between the two sheets of glass and guess where every crumb and spill went, so they will not be on my radar again. I'm also hearing good reports about Electrolux but very bad ones about Miele and their service which is really letting the brand down. For those getting on in years too - beware of push button settings and slide controls, arthritic fingers just cannot manage these. As well, I'm told the slide controls on cook tops are not as accurate as knobs.

looks great, especially love the plate racks and the dado and is that a butlers' sink?

The fridge doesn’t recess unfortunately, but we have asked for a 1200mm gap between the wall cabinets and island, plus we are going for a French door fridge, so doors aren’t as deep. We have thought ahead about the power and it’s in the fridge space ready to go! Talking about taking water under kickboards to sink area with the little tubes that come with fridges these days. I don’t know what their like, but seems to be how they do them now? Thanks for checking out my plans. Great feedback!