The ever lovely Nicole from Making It Lovely kindly offered to do a mock up of my kitchen with some new bench tops. I was amazed at just how much of a difference a change of bench tops made to the whole look.
Nicole says 'all I did was take away some stuff, add an inexpensive rug from IKEA, three birch tree prints (also from IKEA), swap out the counter, and paint behind the open shelves.' Wow, all sounds so easy, but it makes such a huge difference!
I definitely have something to think about now. Thanks again Nicole.