My husband is chief cook and bottle washer round our house and we do a lot of entertaining -- large family groups every Sunday and lots of other groups as well. My job is to sit in the kitchen at the breakfast bar with a glass of wine saying - that smells good dear!!!!! and I want you to know I am very good at it.

One thing I didn't read above was a huge oversized dishwasher.....a regular family dishwasher is just useless if you have served twelve or so as we often do.....you have to run the darn thing 5 times to get rid of all the dishes. We would have a commercial one or at least a double.

And, of course, a wine fridge so my wine is always at just the right temperature.....