unwilling - I am 
at your kitchen. If you showed it to me, I would never guess it was Ikea - it looks a million dollars, like one of the really, really expensive German ones! You must be so pleased.
I will book an Ikea planner visit today, and then upload the plan. I would really, really love some advice from you folks - it would be so gratefully received. I am about an hour's drive away from two Ikeas, but in a big city so I guess there will be planners that are local to me.
One of the major issues is that I love cooking and have a lot of stuff which doesn't currently fit in the tiny space that I have - it's stored in my dining room instead. I'd like to get most of it back into the kitchen if at all possible, but this means finding every single possible solution to turn what is a very small room into a tardis. My worry is overfilling it with units and thus making it feel even smaller and more miserably cave-like. I'm planning to buy things like nesting saucepans to save space.
I need to fit a dishwasher, oven/hob, fridge/freezer and washing machine, and only three of these will actually fit in the kitchen. I currently have the fridge/freezer in a little hole under the stairs and the other three in the kitchen. I could move the washing machine and freezer under the stairs and put the fridge in the kitchen - but this would mean moving the plumbing and creating a new drain. I don't know if that makes it really expensive to do?
Because of the size issue, it's pretty much got to be a white kitchen to bounce more light around.