Everything everyone else wants, yes.

I also want an easy way to access the largeish machines I use - a rice cooker, a citrus juicer, a separate vegetable juicer; some day I may get a liquidiser and one of those multichef things again.

Enough sockets. When I was wiring my first kitchen, my mother said to count the appliances I usually used, then double the number of sockets, which meant eight. Actually, I could use 16 no bother - with mobile phone juicing up, radio humming, a whizzer wand whizzing up soup, a kettle boiling...

Big windows looking out across a beautiful view - preferably to the Atlantic. A couch with a dog sneaking up onto it. A happy cat purring on the windowsill. Plants. A good radio/CD (a Denon for preference), with my music plugged into it on a wireless hard drive like the one Apple's either about to issue or has just issued.

A big table would be nice, but I don't want to spend my life walking around it, and I don't particularly like shifting table and chairs to sweep and wash the floor. Haven't worked that one out yet.

I don't like fitted presses as much as I used to; they're kind of hospital-like. But easy cleaning is important.

I used to love open shelves, but have now defaulted to my mother's view that in a kitchen where there's greasy steam, you're better off with glass-fronted presses.