Boy, I feel bad. I have seen your request for almost 2 weeks with no response. I wish I could help you, but I don't know anything about Southern Magazine or how to make your yard look like anything in it. Unfortunately I think your request may have been too specific and nobody really knows what it is you are shooting for. Any chance you could rephrase your request in less specific terms so more folks could understand the look you are trying to achieve?

Thanks gals for all the info. I've found the Great Lash but, so far, not in blue. But I'll keep looking as I'd like to give it a try. Hopefully, as so many of you are pleased, it will replace my "dearly loved Revlon until they screwed around with it". :-))) I have tried Lancome and wasn't at all pleased with it though generally I like their products. Have not tried the 'other' Estee but sure not happy with the More Than stuff. Think I'll leave more experiments with that line until I try Maybelline's. For the price of Lancome and Estee, I'm VERY disgruntled. Interesting weed re: the makeup artists. Merry Xmas all & I'll let you know my *findings*. LOL!!

Jpmom, you home is gorgeous already! The 12" crown will look perfect with the already tall baseboards. Then add all the other woodwork in, the fireplace mantle, wainscoting, and pillars in the dining room. So pretty! My first reaction was to continue the white painted woodwork. It seems naturally connected to that bar wall from the the LR and DR with the baseboards and wainscoting. Oh and I also love that transom window above the other doorway too! My other thought was that I know from experience how the backsplash tile can completely change colors due to the lighting and what is directly next to it. I would want the two areas in the kitchen with the backsplash to look related. It may look completely different with one being next a window with white cabs and dark counters verses the other being in low natural light with black cabs and white Quartz. I'd definitely wait to decide on what to do with the bar area until the rest of the kitchen is painted white as Romy suggested. I do think it might look great either way, but I'm just one who needs to see it in real life before committing. I am sure either way it is gonna be stunning! ETA.... Could you possibly find a remnant of the Volga blue to fit the bar top if you went with white cabs on the bar? Or possibly just cut the granite and add a dark walnut type wood butcherblock section that reads dark above the wine fridge? Think romy's dark wood top next to the granite? Just a thought....:-)

Second plan, with the addition of a prep sink on the island. Your fridge doesn't need landing space on both sides, and the island will be extra landing space. Pull the cabinets on the fridge/range wall out to meet the fridge box, and you have an instant built in fridge, with the added bonus of deeper counters--unless that puts the clean-up sink against the perpendicular counter. I can't tell where the windows are, exactly. As twosit mentioned, the dish hutch is in a good spot in the second plan. A helper can load or unload the DW, or gather dishes to set the table, while you are prepping or cooking without interfering in your tasks. You have a small secondary prep space between the clean-up sink and the range, if you have help prepping. Given the choice of a window over the sink, or a window in the pantry, I'd choose the sink--how much time do you plan to spend in the pantry?