Manpreet, Congratulations on your new home! You can go with BWP ply with laminates. You are right in your choice of matt and glossy laminates for base and wall cabinets respectively. Without knowing your tastes, I am taking a chance to suggest you 14541 for base and 21187 MR+ from merino catalog. It looks good. Thanks, Nitin CORNERSTONE DESIGNS Bangalore.

Hi Anurag, Black counter top is very common and you can go for ample combinations like light and dark grey, yellow , red, green ...and their combinations will look great. So no need to worry..go for any colorful combinations. Regards, Sujoy

My method of covering the exhaust pipe would be a plywood box treated (as in painted) to look like the wall. instead of this heavy look. so if you were to let the box touch the ceiling, it's even easier to camouflage with wall paint.

Hi, you can use the white shade quartzite for the counter. You can have a retro look and feel kitchen if you use turquoise or dark green or grey color cabinets. If you are going with this style then copper shade hardware will just be perfect.