Is this what you've decided on in the end?
Yes. Kitchen ordered, tile flooring ordered, independent building contractor setup along with sparky and plumber.
Um.. as a background .. my day job I am used to reading the riot act with bad suppliers, negotiating contracts, senior staff in an organisation of 200,000 people.. The wife is a french redhead with a reputation (good) for not taking crap either at work too.. my general advice with Wren is be excruciatingly detailed and confirm (in writing) every element of query you have. Ensure the contract you finalise is 100% correct at the time of signing without any queries after.
1. We had to read the riot act once as the wren installation coordination team are a serious liability - even with the designer in conference call they couldn't quite get it right in terms of timing being discussed - initially they didn't discuss with the date but simply tried to push a date - ignoring that we had got supplementary work needed.
2. After reading the riot act to the Store General Manager again.. the designer initially managed to volunteer an appointment but knew he was on vacation, the GM wasn't happy as it was simply pushing it off on other staff.. needless to say we had the correct attention to detail after that!
3. After correcting the design and the bill of materials - we discovered that their design software has a bug, the designer reported on a call..
4. We finalised by going through the contracts with a fine toothcomb (including all the items, the T&C , and delivery line by line) and finally deciding after 4 builders looking at the plans and visiting - to have an independent perform the install.
5. The selected builder had fun too.. I think they're used to a very vague definition so by the end of a week of discussing (good natured) we had a proper statement of work, quote and contractural terms that work given some of the T&C that wren state (such as performing partial deliveries)
6. We have tiles from Crown Tiles due tomorrow, the build starts next week and we have wren confirm that the delivery will be a single complete delivery.
Hmm as they say.. a plan is list of problems
So I'm not counting my chickens, but wanted to give an indication of the level of attention required with Wren.
In the end we switched from midnight blue to gloss lagoon blue (blue-green) for the under worktop units. The full height units and top units will be gloss white to prevent an overload of colour in a small space. The worktop itself will be the Italian Concrete dark grey colour laminate but an 80mm work top all around. The wren standard worktop is lower than our current 1980s one (perhaps modern accessibility design) so the thicker work top probably means it will be a pain to route but we gain about 1 cm or thereabouts in height. I'm tall and she doesn't like bending when at the sink etc.
The walls will be Goose Down light grey with a splash back tiles to be confirmed.
Perhaps not your pastel colours but a bold colour cut under a dark work top finished on one wall in white. Quite pop rather than quaker.
I would quite happily do things like have a white kitchen with a ferrari red set floor to ceiling units in the centre for example.