Our kitchen was old when we moved into our house 8 years ago - it was from Magnet. It's a really small space and though we liked the job the same company did on our old kitchen this one is way smaller - to have a full height fridge we have to have it in the dining room, almost a full wall of the dining room is the old range alcove/chimney nook plus a doorway.
We do have cupboard storage in the dining room and a large Welsh dresser so that some of the pressure is taken off the kitchen.
But I'm not keen on using a single company design system - is there anything easy to use but not run by one company?