Agreed open shelves are a PITA for cleaning. Slide-out racks and spin-out racks for corner cupboards are both very space-hungry: I'd rather crawl and have the extra space (and my kitchen is already huge).

For saucepans and such-like that you need frequently, I have seen a thing like a large stainless-steel drain grating. Hang it on chains over the sink so you don't bang your head on it and put saucepans upside-down on it and hang useful tools on the side.

I will never again have a coloured enamel sink. Sooo much easier to clean satin-finish (or brushed-finish) stainless steel. Flat finish stainless shows every water-drop!

Washing machines and tumble-dryers and ironing boards belong in a separate laundry-room.

I like the inset polished granite cutting board I have. Easy to clean.

I'd quite like to remove the breakfast bar to make space for one of those huge American combined upright fridge-freezer things. You can naever have too much freezer space. I'm still finding stuff that Jacqui froze!

And I'd like to shoot the idiot who put the burglar alarm controls in the kitchen where they just waste space, and also the idiot who designed the plastic knobs on the Cannon range-oven that disintegrate every few years, and the other idiot who put a griddle on it with too small a burner underneath so that it is simply impossible to get it up to temperature to sear meat properly.

But I hate cooking, so what do I know?