Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Ginger! I'm trying to lose weight and eat healthier. Lite Yogurt adds calcium & protein to my diet but it gets boring day after day. I can't wait to try these recipes. I'm off to order the popcicle molds now!

newhomebuilder - thanks. I am hoping it will look okay. I had wanted to put in a built-in for television etc, but DH wants to put in wet bar. I am just not so sure if I like the open sink showing. Thanks forhgtv... I think we will be okay too since the molding doesn't connect to other molding. I did a quick mockup of what it will look like... I put in the bar, lightened the crown molding and darkened the ceiling. What do you think of the bar layout? We already ordered the cabinets but we would send back if there was a much better layout worth possibility of getting stuck with restock fee. The upper cabinets will be lighted and have seed glass. There are two wine cubes, then below those is a small cabinet that opens. I am not sure what to put behind the sink. In the mockup I put a mirror and then at the lower level is a two tile high backsplash with a vineyard scene (not sure if this is too much or too tacky). The bottom cabinets will be a cabinet with slide outs to put liquor bottle on, then the sink base, then a stack of drawers. The chair will be moved and those windows will be sliding doors to deck. I also modified the mantel to be a wood mantel. Not sure what we are going to do. Previous owners glued mirror onto the two tiered rough cedar mantel. So we are having the mirror removed and then will see what our next step will be. Any thoughts?

Did you ever find what you were looking for? I have the same criteria. I am short and like to read in the tub. so not too long nor wide and want arm rests.

I am in the middle of a whole house reno. I wanted to paint the kitchen cabinets and the attached crown gray, but the kitchen opens to the living room, which will have white box paneling and also white crown like the rest of the house. There is a corner where the two rooms meet (a recessed bar niche between the living/kitchen. I don't love the idea of two colors of painted crown meeting up, is there a good way to do this? Or does anyone have a picture of a similar situation? I have seen stained cabs/meeting with painted and that looks ok but two different paints seems like a bad idea. I can't seem to find any photos of this situation. Kitchen is the the right, bar niche to the left with the pretty white pipe running through it, living to the far left. (Dining is through the cased opening with window) My current thought is to do the bar area cab/crown white and extend the white over the tiny bit of wall between that and the kitchen. Then the gray kitchen cabs would start on that wall to the left of the wires. Thank you!