I've have posted on here umpteen times in the past year, have lurked on numerous threads and trawled through old threads for advice on kitchen design and its paid off as I love my new kitchen. The best bits are all down to you and are:
- dresser units with solid doors with things like the blender, coffee grinder etc all plugged in permanently but hidden and I can just pull them out when I want to use them and then tuck them away again. They make what used to be a palaver of lifting something down from a high shelf, finding the attachments etc a lot more straight forward
- an under stairs cupboard with a space for the ironing board, iron, hoover, dustban & brush & e-mop thing as, again, they're easy to grab (especially as the hoover is plugged in) so easy to use. My kitchen is looking a lot cleaner and its not just new kitchen pride, its also due to the fact I can get to the cleaning stuff so easily
- water softener. My hair is transformed & I don't have to spend ages cleaning the shower screens. Yes, it was ££££ but totally worth it for the transformation in my hair. And DD loves the bubbles in her bath.
- planning, planning and more planning of every cupboard & drawer so everything actually has a home so it easier to tidy
Despite the buffing, I'm glad I went for black granite.
I'm sure there are more things that are due to you MNrrs but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Thank you! 
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