I already have lots of clippings, but I thought if anybody had a specific design feature of their cabs that they love they wanted to recommend then I would be grateful!

I've got a small kitchen so I'm particulary looking for storage ideas. Another feature is that I have a vintage cast iron, wall hung farmhouse sink (not the undermount type), so ideas on how to work these onto a sink base would be great!

What kind of a sink do you have? This picture is only really useful if your sink has drainboards and an apron front, but I hope it helps:

And now for a question that will demonstrate just how much I DON'T know about this stuff - are your cabinets considered "face framed"?

Face frame and frameless refer only to the cabinet box. My cabinets are face frame, which means that there is a lip or frame as part of the front of the boxes. Frameless cabinets only have sides and backs to their cabinet boxes; they don't have a frame on the front (Ikea cabinets are frameless so you might be able to see their cabinet boxes on their website).

Inset, partial overlay, and full overlay refer to the drawers and doors of the cabinet. My cabinets are inset, which means that the doors and drawers fit completely inside of the face frame. All inset cabinets will have a face frame box.

Partial overlay means that part of the door overlaps the frame but you can still see the part of the frame of the cabinet box when the doors/drawers are closed. Again, all partial overlay cabinets will have a face frame box.

Full overlay cabinets means that when doors/drawers are closed, all you see are the doors and drawers. You do not see the cabinet box behind them. All frameless cabinet boxes have full overlay doors/drawers, but I believe that you can get full overlay in both face frame and frameless cabinets.

Have I confused or helped you??

Regarding sinks, nutherokie also has a sink like yours and mine. Ideagirl2 has one that is similar, but I don't know where she is in her installation. I'm attaching a link to a thread where we talk about some options. Good luck and keep us posted!

I'm guessing that the kitchen blfenton meant is jmseattle's, linked below. (Note the pull-out board in the island.)

I second the pull-out cutting board idea. I will have my actual cutting board built right into a section of counter, but I have a pullout lapboard 36" wide that acts as more counter space. The cab maker just made it a really big cutting board, but then he varnished it, which you wouldn't with a real pull out cutting board. Mine is a "lapboard" because it is at desk height, so you can eat at it, too.

I also did cubbies on the back part of my island, which I tuck my toaster, food processor, spices, etc.. in. It extends the counter space and hides the chaos from the other side. We designed it by accident because I had gotten the idea from Ikea to face shallow wall cabs on the back side of the island rather than putting a cover panel. When I was playing with their online planner is turned one of the cabs around and I saw the potential for facing 2 of them towards the cook. The 3rd one hides the back of our tall vintage stove. My only regret is I realized after that I could have skipped those actual 2 cabs and just had the counter that covers their top and sides form the cubbies. It would have given me an extra inch or so and made my spaces taller. I thought an 18" cab would be enough but the interior space is less than 18"....
This is how they looked with the planner. You have to picture my counters going up to them, flush. My KA stand mixer is too tall for in there and I did not go for the spice carousels as planned in this pic. You can see how they extend my usable counter by keeping more stuff off of them. The middle top cab and the lower 3 cabs face away from the kitchen. I have put a lot of can goods back there and the one closest to the kitchen table has dh's extensive condiment collection. I am so glad that got moved out of the kitchen storage area :)