Can highly recommend the new shelf available from the shop, really extends the kitchen area, also bought the ladder which makes getting upstairs so much easier.
It fills me with horror to see electric kettles with trailing leads in confined spaces like this. I'm as tight as they come but will happily burn gas to avoid the risks that jump out at me from the photo above.
I agree the shelf is very handy and easy to put in place and store away. We use it for various bits and pieces like mobile phones etc. You can feed the charging leads up the back using the socket or Invertor socket - no trailing leads !.