Thank you for all your comments. We have been looking at the black granite composite made by Franke but is triple the price of Blanco. Was concerned the black composite would scratch etc. will probably go two stainless steel, because as previous poster mentioned the blacks are never the same. Sure I will be back for more help or advise.

We got the IKEA shelves that are pictured in the butlers pantry photo I posted when we were on holiday in Melbourne, Australia. We don't have IKEA here in New Zealand! Hubby is going back over in May/June so will get him to get more of that sort of thing when there. We would pay about 4x the price for that sort of thing here in NZ. I need to work out what I will do now where the fridge was and there is the angle change (does that make sense?).

The all black kitchen looks scary as. Maybe because there's no lightness in there at all.

Thanks, I really like the look of a white butlers sink but just needing to know if they wear as well as a stainless steel one. Are they easy to keep clean - i scrub my present stainless steel one with slightly abrasive cleaning stuff but don't know if you'd do that to a white porcelain one??