Just got off the phone with Hafele on another issue, and it was explained to me that they have many, many parts in stock that are no longer in their catalogs or on their website. He recommended that we hang on to all catalogs forever . . .so we can go back and reference old parts that they may still have, but no longer advertise. He actually directed me to a page on Amazon to see what it looked like (rather than their own website). Weird. I can't imagine why they would do this . . .but they do.

Mrsmm, thanks for the heads up about the extra charges involved. I wasn't thinking about that. BTW, how is your surprise kitchen progressing? I hope great! Suzannesl, I did not notice the lamps at first. ..a bit silly don't you think? That is just a bit too close for electricity and water for me! My eye went right to the marble. Kompy, thanks for the spot on details and points to consider. The susan revolves inside the cab, the sink cab is all flush wood at the corners but I love the toe kick solution. The sink will probably be 25x22 under mount single bowl. I wondered why the sink looked further back when the cab was a bit extended. Something to consider! A2gemini, I love to hear how people are happy with the end result. After the compromises, I am not sure if I will really end up with what I had hoped for but I learned here the importance of being flexible and making choices along the way!

Nicole: If the end pieces I pictured above were missing, you'd be looking at an exposed cabinet style and the top and bottom rail on each end and a hole between the three. The drawer end covers the void and makes your eye continue the line from the doors upward. A flush piece in the void would have to fit perfectly, be finished matched, would not continue the line, and would therefore look stupid. You're not going to find any pictures because no one would ever go through that much work for something that's not going to look good. Here's a full size 33" apron sink properly mounted in a 36" cabinet. The distance from the cabinet end to the sink apron end will be 3" on your job, not the 1 1/2" pictured here which I admit doesn't look too bad. That sink was replaced by this short apron Elkay Quartz Luxe. The bottom of the apron now lines up with the adjacent drawer bottom, and there is virtually no cabinet face exposed which I think looks better. I made the customer find a factory painted color match trim (you provide, you agree color matches) which I installed above and flush with the top of the middle rail to fill the gap. That didn't have to fit nearly as nicely as flush side fillers would have to, because only the person reaching under the sink will ever see it.

It lost its favor here after too many middle of the night "wake ups" for nothing. Then we had a major wind go through about a year ago. Blew trees down, made our house move, took out two entire buildings on our farm site - NO weather alert message. NWS deemed it a "non event". Even the local Sheriff had called in to double check why alerts weren't going off - they said nothing was happening (as he sat in his car that was bouncing up and down in the wind.) It was a straight line type of storm, and maybe those are not predictable or visible to their equipment. I do like to be able to turn it on for forecast and during bad weather, since the new digital TV doesn't work for us at all during bad weather. You will enjoy it for that. It is a very nice gift!