Love the new kitchen - tones in well with everything and really nice and modern.
I don't mind the washer in the kitchen - especially as you had to demolish the laundry to make the kitchen bigger. But I probably would have put it in a cupboard somewhere else in the house.
As a PPOR you've done some radical changes and it looks great. I love how much easier it is to do stuff like that with framed walls. Try doing something like that in Perth with brick internal walls and you are screwed!