Hi Ross, We do have a few UK members on this site and if your visitor joins our forums and enters the names below into this site's search engine he/she can probably come up with some email addresses as a starting point. I just tried one name (flora_uk), and she can be contacted by email, so maybe the others can also. Since I became a member I have kept a log of other members user names and their countries, mainly just out of interest and in case I wanted to contact them for anything relating to their particular country in the future, and looking up the UK section I can only find the following: alibaba cactuschris (Chris)- Cheshire flora_uk marko7 martyp I don't know if this is of any help to you, but maybe someone who is more computer savy than I can advise a better way to do this. All the best, Nev.

ptamom - you cracked me up...I believe they are Cypress trees. They work well to "block" neighbors :) Thanks aliris. We still haven't sealed the granite. I tested a "sealer and enhancer" in a corner and it darkened it, which I didn't want but it was the only sealer that said it was for "honed" granite. Not sure what to do now? Of course the people at Home Depot and Lowes have no clue what I'm talking about when I try to describe our stone and the texture of it. DH is currently installing "the pig" aka the garbage disposal and hoping to have running water for our sink by midnight tonight. Fingers crossed. I've spent ALL day researching hardware. Such a small thing causing so many questions. Not sure why I'm second guessing myself now when I thought the decisions had been made a while back. Maybe because now, hardware is actually ready to be installed? Tomorrow we have a birthday party to go to but hoping DH can get the fridge and possibly even our new Bertazzoni range and hood in tomorrow. So excited!!!

krabbypatty: Glad you're finding that your plan is workable. We do like our kitchen--we spent $ on the "infrastructure" in order to get the space--a high priority. A goal was to not have to say "excuse me" in my own kitchen. Each of the vital areas--sinks, breadboards (cutting boards, range--have two exits from them so that no one is trapped there, with the possible exception of the most used cutting board/breadboard which is in the crotch of the peninsula side of the U. The "sandwich station" pullout next to the refrigerator has proved to be a really wise idea. There we cut tomatoes, butter toast, open and cut cheese, pour milk into cereal, serve ice cream, plunk grocery bags. We're really enjoying the freedom to spread out. The dehydrator's been resident on the countertop for 2 months yet we still could do other activities. (It goes into storage pretty soon, as soon as storage closet gets shelves and a door.) Recently two couples joined us for dinner. I went to one corner and zoomed up some blender salad dressing. Went to another corner and pulled out materials for popovers and heaved them into the oven. Two women and I all messed with veg peeling and cutting on the peninsula and built two casseroles and a salad. DH puttered around with two marinated Alaskan salmon and headed to the grill on the deck and bothered no one. Various adult beverages were served in appropriate glasses at the top of the G and yet I could continue working and orchestrating, uninterrupted. Used dishes began to pile up but it didn't matter. Our flatware box was open and ready on the peninsula all through the dining room meal and was consulted twice. Afterwards,well meaning helpers began messing with the dishwasher and I didn't care. __ Drake the Lab claims to run the place. We've developed a new command: "lobby!"so he will leave the G and go to the very spacious T between the two corridor halls and take his blinkin' dog chews or whatever with him. He loves to carry about wood hunks or plastic pop bottles. Also a nested pair of large black plastic flower pots, one inside the other, a clumsy toy that has survived for 3 months without being torn apart. Needless to say, I'm concerned for the future of the oak floor, but hey, DH chose it and he installed it and Drake is HIS dog. Buehl: Not sure if I've ever seen your kitchen. Thanks for the photos and the description of the scouts in the kitchen. That brings back fond memories. Good of you to work with these kids. Many children today don't much exposure to real cooking. Or proper understanding of eating with others. Sounds like your well-planned islandless kitchen is up to all kinds of adventures.

I have fallen in love with the British-style graphic vinyl floors. I'd prefer to use a vinyl sheet flooring in my mudroom b/c we keep the litter box there & sometimes the kitties miss :-) I'm having a really hard time finding a U.S. manufacturer making this style sheet flooring or a U.S. storefront selling the British options. Most of the U.K. Flooring stores I've found online won't shut to the U.S. Anybody have vinyl sheet floors like this or know where I can find them? Here's a few examples to give you an idea: