Custom steel-blue finish with white oak.  Handsome coloration with a larger scale white subway tile.  We removed two annoying walls preventing flow and pleasing sight-lines...then added a shorter, thicker wall for apt delineation of rooms.  To create plentiful workspace in the kitchen proper we changed a sliding door to an invaluable window behind the new sink...and created a large sliding door in the dining area.  Clients have partied-hardie in the new spaces and are thrilled with the workability and feel.  Of course. 

Of Note — No upper cabinetry?!  What in the blazes?!  Wait, here me out...  Once base cabinetry and tall cabinetry are rigorously pulling their weight with efficiency and purpose...then one doesn't require much, if any, upper boxes littering the walls, the views, the face space.  Of course, wall cabinetry can do wonderful things for a zone...but to simply plant them on the walls wherever they fit (which is the usual course) is a crime for the divineness value of this socially connective space.