OK,I was a bad girl and repeated myself in too many places and seemed to set off a spam filter,I guess in attempting to relay the message about Bigreds troubles I used similar wording and the filters picked me off as spam...which is a relief to know that we are well protected.Sue rescued me and I hope also Bigred.I have informed her of the activities that have been going on and we will hopefully hear from her by the end of the day!Thanks again! ~ Angie... who is walking far away from this computer because she has had enough for now!

Doesn't make sense if you posted one with no problem. Can you place them as an icon on your desk top and then add one at a time if you don't have to many to share? Hope someone else will jump in here and come to your rescue. Punk

Thank you everyone for giving me the confidence to stand up for myself and my kitchen. This was super helpful. To clarify, when we got the quote and signed the contract it was understood that we would have the cooktop as a cutout. Then, we I went to the store to go over where the seams would be they said they changed there minds to a bridge saying it would look great. I questioned them on it but went with there professional opinion. (I SOO wish I could go back now and push for the original plan! Lesson learned!) My husband and I both feel strongly that they tried to do this to keep more material so they could sell it. My husband called this morning and let the owner know that we aren't happy with the seams. The other issues, although they've been annoying can be fixed. I held up my tile backsplash and it almost covers the gap....I talked with my contractor who says that once they put the material behind the tiles (blanking on the word!) that it will cover the gap. We are pushing for using the leftover material to redo the piece next to the cooktop. We are willing to try another bridge if it can be matched really well but are also hoping that a cutout is still a possibility, we'll see (there is plenty left over because we needed an entire slab plus just a little bit more of another). I'm so thankful we didn't settle and try to ignore those seams. Instead of loving my countertops I automatically look at the seems when I walk into my kitchen right now.

On reflection it looks like the bar has to come out of the left: 2D: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_UoHa9j5rYeU3lWWkJOWHhJRkU/view?usp=sharing 3D: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_UoHa9j5rYeT3NkdnA0aTRTYW8/view?usp=sharing The drawings don't quite show all of the detail due to restrictions of the program and the user. I think the eating bar coming out of the high units will look great if the high units are a contrasting colour and material from the two banks of lowers.