The one thing that comes to mind for me in the midst of all these wonderful ideas:

I am not too concerned about the fact that our kitchen is apt to fall into the basement any day. What gets me is having to reset the circuit breaker if I use the small microwave and the small toaster oven and the distiller at the same time. NOT ENOUGH power to each outlet is as bad as not enough outlets. Four outlets on a 12 foot counter are great only if they are on at least two separate ciircuits!