Have you considered just adding a little table on the bottom wall with a chair that tucks underneath? If you don't need access to the bottom linen closet, you could do that. Wouldn't have to move any plumbing, so it would be easier and cheaper.

And again, I'm mortified if you thought I was criticizing the "kitchenet"! Specifically, what I don't like about the other idea is that it does give you a lower counter while having appliance garages above, but you sacrifice all the lower cab storage that could have held the appliances just fine, and the mixer it given a place on the higher cab, not the lower one. Contrast this to your antique. The antique is, well, a whole lot cooler, but that aside, its pullout gives you more counter space while preserving the under-cabinet space. Much more practical, not so self-aware, and a much better usage of space. (I'm assuming that you'd want a pullout counter because you didn't have enough space for a separate low one--the "kitchenet" does this, but the tear sheet from the magazine does not.) Plus, the antique add a lot more in character, to me at least, than the table's "color punch" does. Is this going to be a pantry as well as a baking room? What does the main kitchen look like? I think my best prep counter surface is 34". I'm going to stand on some books for a while and see if I'm right.... (I also love Willow Decor's, but I love her whole house....)

I like your choices too..the woman is my favorite and I like the abstract too. Here is a wall of art I have in my kitchen. I've collected it over the years...lots of years...and it was all from flea markets, yearly antique shows out in a field or from ebay. One of my favorites came from a garage sale and cost a whopping $1.00. It's very eclectic but it's totally me. My kitchen walls are apple green..but every time I take a photo the camera picks the color up as a sick acid green. It's really not so excuse how it looks in the photo. And the lighting isn't great but you get the idea. Anyway, a lot of people think I'm quirky...and I don't care...so go for it if you like it. Here is a link that might be useful:

I cut my long hair in August,now my hair takes me seconds to do. As for makeup-none on a daily basis. It just rubs off on my surgical mask at work. For a night out, or if I want to impress my makeup takes me 10 minutes but I rarely wear it. I am lucky that at 52 I have good skin. Still nice and tight (on my face that is). My only issue is brown spots from sun exposure while golfing, but that is easily covered. I learned my lesson and religiously wear spf 50 from oil of olay regenerist every day.