Thanks, everyone! I was a little nervous posting, knowing that it's...um...different, but I recently moved from DC to Austin, TX, so decided to have a little fun. And as you can see, we've already mucked it up with alphabet magnets and wine, but that's what kitchens are for! On questions - the cabinets are custom by a local guy, which turned out to be cheaper than IKEA, even. I painted them BM Palladian Blue. Counters are bamboo. It's beautiful, but I'm a little afraid of how it will hold up. It can be refinished, though, and was (relatively) inexpensive. Lighting is from Rejuvenation. We also have UCL, and I was going to add a light rail to hide it, but am no longer sure that will be possible :( I'm happy to take close-ups tonight, but am not sure what to do other than the tile. It's a fairly modest kitchen remodel, although it's everything I was going for. I do, in fact have floorplans, though! Here they are: Before (ignore the bedrooms...we didn't touch them): After:

We are FINALLY DONE with the landscaping (except for 2 trees). A Pom-Pon juniper tree will go against this fence. A Hinoki Cypress tree will go behind the waterfall. We still need to get a bridge to go over the rocks and connect to the walkway on the side of the house. We also painted our house :-) Next year my outdoor bbq island will go where the table is and we will get all new patio furniture :-)

Kellykath- the inside of the cabinet is a wide beadboard stained the same dark color as my island. Lolauren, you have good eyes- they are the circa lighting/visual comfort pendants. I am pretty sure they are the large size- whichever one is 12" across and has 3 bulbs. We went round and round on that one for awhile (no pun intended) and I am pretty sure "large" was the final answer. I saw those on the circa website and was obsessed with finding a place for them somewhere in our house! Basilbee- our mudroomfloors are slate fro the Tile Shop. Color is Madras Multi with a natural gray grout.

Scootermom - Our kitchen is not huge, but they traffic flow is not through my work space, so it functions so much better than anything i've ever had! The kitchen footprint is about 10'-4" deep by 14'-10" long (these are the wall to wall dimensions inside the opening separating the kitchen from dining, which includes all the cabinetry). My clear workspace between range counter and island is 4 foot, all other clearances are 3 feet. My island is 3'-7" x 4'-9". You can see where I house my dishes and glasses below. On the bottom, the spice pullout is immediately to the right of the range. To the right of that is my baking cabinet and flatware drawer. To the left of the range are all my pots, pans and lids and the cooking/baking utensil drawer. My island holds 2 cabinet boxes, one 39" base that we swapped one drawer for the sink and a 18" cabinet base we converted to a double trash bin pullout. The junk drawer is over the trash bins and the knife/gadget drawer is in the middle. The drawer face at the sink flips out to house srubbies. (Excuse the dishes in sink...) BlackChamois - I like the idea of the vapor bar stools (and the Ghost Stools too), but have been nixed by the husband... He fears they will get scratched, thus ruined, from pocket items, buttons, kids, etc. We both agree we need backs on the stools for comfort and our small children. And we agree the stools should not be black... Here's a close up of our cabinet doors and hardware: see link below for hardware! I bought them in HD at special order desk so I could use my 10 or 20 percent off coupon. The shipping was free, so it was a win/win! white doors SW "rainwashed" doors. this is a very hard color to accurately photograph! It is soft, subtle and changes greatly throughout the day with the different lighting conditions, natural and artificial. *will post another post with Knob link... can't figure out how to do 2 in one post OR do i have the time to figure out the html code Here is a link that might be useful: MSL Pulls