When we did our kitchen we put in lots of drawers (for pots and pans but also for plates and glasses). I find them so much better than cupboards as it is easy to see everything that is in there. We also have one deep drawer where we keep the things like sandwich toaster, blender and slow cooker in so that they aren't taking up bench space all the time.
We put in draws too but hid some behind cupboard doors as we didnt want to look at so many not linning up (i know!) we also have stone bench tops and glass splash back the later i can not live without so easy to clean. we have our microwave hidden in our pantry as i have looking at them and our dishwasher is also hidden behind a cupboard door! we also have a huge matching unit opp the other end of the kitchen which houses this pc and TV and heaps of other stuff too.

Our kitchen reno was not cheap with the bench tops costing alone $10000 and the splash back $2000 walls unit was $4000 and kitchen itself was $10000. i have seen on the telly recently you can get a stone that is really thin but they make the sides bigger for around $2000 wish it was around when we did ours but no regrets