Ok, thanks folks. It sounds like I may be right in suspecting that 100 cm will be too tall. We'll go and check it out. We'll be getting new appliances too, as the ones we have are all malfunctioning in some way or another (Old house, last inhabited by an elderly woman who had been a widow for ten years.)

I'm not fussy, I just want a reasonably practical kitchen up fast, without having to spend too much time thinking about it. But my dh tends to ooh and aah over the latest new stuff, so I have to keep an eye on what he's found too.

At the moment we don't even have any lighting in the kitchen. It disappeared when we tore down a wall...