Kitchen planning continues

We hike out to Essendon today to see the kitchen people's warehouse and discuss designs. Despite my having told the bloke who came to measure up that I wanted the new kitchen to be exactly like the old one, the sketch designs they show us are quite different. However Peter has the foresight to take some photos of the kitchen with his iPad and bring them with us, and once the woman kitchen designer sees them, she 'gets it' absolutely, so the next round should be more like it.
I keep thinking that this is an opportunity to improve on what I have, so I have toyed with having some new overhead cupboards, a shelf to put the microwave on, etc, but each time I find that either the change will look terrible, or stop something that currently works from working, so I go back to, "I want it just the same". We even think we will keep our old sink, as we haven't found anything we like better. We will replace the existing bin drawer with one that a) works and b) has three separate lift out bins, for compost, recycling, and land-fill rubbish. The 'pantry' drawers will be swapped with one bank of crockery drawers so that all the crockery is in reach of the dishwasher, and all the food is down the end of the kitchen. Apart from that, nothing much will change apart from minor adjustments to dimensions to cope with the changing location of walls.
We are now wrestling with benchtop choices - the material that the kitchen place recommends is Caesarstone, which looks fine, except that I don't like any of the patterns/colours. Why are things never easy?

Further investigation of foundations

P decides that the amount quoted for the foundations is excessive. We are concerned because the engineering for the house next door doesn't specify foundations that are anything like as deep as ours. As the walls are going to be built side by side, they can't both be right. In consultation with the builder, have decided to waiting until they demolish the sheds next door, then redo the soil test on the boundary line. It will cost in the short term, but it may save us money long term if we don't need such expensive foundations.