Someone here posted a link a couple of pages back to a ranking of leather manufacturers. Don't know how accurate it is but there also seems to be some good basic leather facts on the site. We've had a Classic Leather sofa, the Providence model, for more than ten years. It was on the pricey side but is the best purchase we ever made. Nice styling and a soft touch to the leather. We love it. Here is a link that might be useful: Leather manufacturer ratings

your welcome. we went with the merillat masterpiece and they are due in appx. 2 weeks. I actually went to the Wall NJ showroom so I dont know who you would speak to by you but for reference my guy is Mike Campbell, super nice and very helpful. Durasupreme makes a great product as well but I just happened to like the paint finish on the merillat better, we went with maple cabinets with vanilla bean glaze. I will tell you one thing, and this applies to cabinets from any store, ask the price of the door style you pick. I did not know that there was such a difference in price for different door styles! The more detail that's on the door the pricier it is and somehow I always manage to pick out the most expensive of everything......I dont mean to but it just happens! If you have any more questions I would be more than happy to answer them. Here is a link that might be useful: merillat

Oldhousegal, I am in Portland, Ore! I haven't gotten the soapstone yet -- just ordered it on Monday. They told me it will take 2-3 days to leave the warehouse, and then another 5-10 days of transit. Our cabinets will be here in 2 weeks, so I was holding off on getting the soapstone until we had an ETA on the cabinets so that we didn't have too much construction stuff clogging up our staging area (the garage). I will post pics once the stone comes, though! I ordered 4 slabs of Barocca. I was also told by several places that soapstone was not readily available in Portland, but you can find it at Pentel (on NW Yeon). You can visit their warehouse and see the slabs in person -- the slabs are beautiful, but they only have one variety. The frustrating thing is that Pentel only works with fabricators, so they will give you a list of fabricators, but won't tell you how much a slab costs! Annoying. Our contractor has an account through CFM, who is one of the fabricators on the list at Pentel, so we asked them for a quote -- they said it was going to be $4,700 for the soapstone, including installation. Ordering from Texiera and getting my carpenters (who I love) to cut and install will cost about half of that. So far I have been pretty impressed with Texiera. They have been very responsive to my emails, and phone calls. The sample pack that I ordered arrived within a few days, and they were happy to answer all of my questions. I ordered my slabs, but could not find a way to order the tinted epoxy w/o ordering the entire DIY kit (my carpenters have the necessary blades already), so I emailed them -- they got back to me within 10 minutes and added just the epoxy to my order.

if you install rev a shelf roll outs according to their specs why would that void a warranty on a cabinet? But the cabinet manufacturer might have a more solid rollout tray and better glides, also various side heights on the roll out tray. the roll out chrome caddies for underneath the sink,I think should be fine chosen from assorted styles at hafele,etc,after the plumbing is set-because you wouldn't know how the space is exactly configured until all that is done by plumber,anyway.