I think my computer has caught some kind of creeping cybercrud! I deleted 5 or 6 pages of photos from my PB account and was able to upload only one pic before it crashed again. Now all I have to do is click on "browse" and it automatically throws me back to the desktop before I even try to open anything. Or it gets stuck with the browser window open and the hourglass icon going, but you can't open or close anything. Somehow I don't think starting a new account will help, but I could be wrong. My email browser, on the other hand, works fine, but I don't want to email them to anyone to post, I'm too much of a control freak for that. ;-) And besides, I want to FIX IT. *sigh* (banging head on desk) BTW, Bob, my apologies for hijacking your thread!

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Thank you Bmore and Busybme for your responses. Last night after I posted, I got to thinking about both the prep issue and the banquette idea and actually mocked up the plan you posted Busybme with both the banquette and the coffee area, and I ended up liking that one the very best! To the window sill, it's 36" so that should be enough space without raising the window, right? I was even thinking about making the top of the banquette flush with/part of the window sill and perhaps even putting some fun material up there - whatever matches the countertops maybe? We would likely get a different table, a bit smaller than our current 4x6 and with pedastal type legs for easy schooching in and out, and if it came down to it, we would have a custom one made to make this work. I really like this plan a lot. I feel better about this than any of them so far. It eliminates the earlier problem of the figure-8-walk-around two seating areas. I sacrafice nothing, and get more than I thought could be had, And as you mentioned Busybme, it cuts down on costs since it elimates those big labor money-sucks! (And how exciting that you are starting yours!) My one question is the coffee area - it's close enough to the sink in the island that I don't *have* to have the prep sink, but people tend to love them and it would be kinda nice to have another sink area. What do you think? Is it ridiculous being so close to the main sink? We would look into doing the plumbing ourselves (don't know if it could be done, but we'd see!). As DIY, this part would really be our only "big challenge" and we are up for handling one (vs 3 or 4) :-). Here is what I drew up last night: