deb52899 - Thanks for your reply! I'm so glad you like A too. We are definitely going with it. (Another decision made! Hooray!) And thanks for the photo - your kitchen is lovely! jalsy6 - Thanks for your kind reply! I love the exposed screw look too! (And I don't plan on telling any of our guests that they are decorative. That will be Gardenweb's secret! Shhhhh. Lol!) jgs7691 - Thanks for your vote and reply! I ended up discarding "C" b/c it didn't fit with my original vision. (I have always pictured cup pulls and round knobs.) It is a very pretty look, and I wanted to give it a chance (hence the mockup), but it just didn't feel right for me. So glad you love your Top Knob hardware (and even their customer service)! I am thoroughly impressed with our Top Knobs sample too. The quality is by far the best of all of the samples that we have. I couldn't find your Somerset pulls. What is the model #? lynn2006 - Hello again! How is your kitchen planning going? Thanks so much for your vote and compliment! Our kitchen should be photo ready this weekend, so I'll take some more photos for you from different angles. While I would Love to get rid of our soffit, we don't have the budget to move the plumbing and electric, so it's staying for now. Have you looked at photos of kitchens with soffits vs kitchens without them? Or even a computer rendering of your kitchen with and without soffits (that would be best) - this way you could decide if the expense is worth it for you. Best wishes!

ok, here are the ones I had the most handy that I pulled out. I am sure there are more to choose from, in all my bins, but there should be something here that would work. I think that with anyone of these bolder patterns (or course this is for the seat and bench cushions) they would go with either white, pink or periwinkle (depending on the choice) What say you? pictured here is 2 different colored tulle's one is purple and the other is irredescent gold. there are many other options as well as widths that I could use. This just happens to be what I have now. I also have an ivory that is about twice as wide. and one on a big bolt the pinks in these pictures (in case it's hard to tell) one is fleece, the other is a denium like fabric, and one is just cotton (the lighter one) the pink with the pattern is kind of silky, not 100% sure it's the right texture, but maybe it could work?

After a long day of rearranging the LR, hooking up electronics, and being w/o phone/ internet service, I am back!!!! Parma - that's exactly what I envision. Since I do sweep fairly regularly I want to find a real handmade broom to keep in the corner in the kitchen. I'm sure that DS1 would call it mommy's witches broom! Martha Stewart did a segment on handmade brooms one time and I wish I'd have paid more attention. And old flooring - I think the more aged, worn and dinged up it is the better for me! Stinky - Gardener (Great name) -I've actually been buying stuff here and there and packing it away for a few yrs. now. The house that we live in is Victorian on the inside but I've known the house we are moving to for a long time and it's more in line w/ our simple comfort level. There's no way that our current bedroom style would work in the other house but I am very happy w/ it and yrs. down the road I'm sure that it too will morph into a French Country Farmhouse style. For now I just want to enjoy the finished product. Tish - that sounds perfect, European Farmhouse! I will def. have to google that term and see what pops up. I'm thinking that Shabby Chic look too but w/ way less cottage & flower prints and a lot more farm and durability! Kmcg - thank you very much for the link. Guess what I'll be doing during downtime at work today after all of my work is finished?! Polly - that sounds so pretty - hopefully you will opst some pics anyways despite living through a reno. A real nice thing about GW here is that we've seen pics of eachother's homes at their worst. One of my favorite threads was one where everybody had to go take a picture of their kitchen in the moment and post it. It was great to see kitchens in their 'disaray state' that were typically posted after having been 'staged' for their GW photo op.! I really want DR chairs w/ rush seats and a farmhouse table but DH is so attached to his grandmother's fancy set that I don't even want to suggest it. Ronbre - both of your homes sound very lovely. I can see where it would be tough to decorate in the exact same manner after such a horrible event. I'd love to see pics of the man room and your MBR. Tina - right now I have much of the hardwired stuff packed away like my chandeliers and sconces. Most of it I'd pick up at deep discounts when I worked at Bombay. Our storage rm. was laid out so poorly that items would get stuck in the most hidden spots and forgotten about until I'd rip the place apart and find things that had been there for yrs. My 2 favorite chandies were only $59. Currently I visit them in my attic and peek in the boxes and dream. I didn't want to hang them all and then have to turn around and take them down to sell this house and put all of the original stuff back up. If things pan out alright I will take pics of the LR after I have some more stuff done. I def. have to paint again. When DH moved all of the entertainment stuff I forgot that I hadn't painted behind it all. There's a big bright blue patch! I'd also like to pick up a ceiling fan and paint out the ceiling after 9 yrs. here. There are just wires hanging from the ceiling now. Someone here had recently posted a photo of their Baby Turtle walls and Limestone ceiling and it was so gorgeous so I am going to follow suit and do the same.

Thanks kec, I'll keep trying - that forum has been down today. Also hubby and I are having a disagreement. Basically, he says that the energy efficiency loss is greater during the summer when you'd have screens in the storms, when the AC is running, so it's not that good efficiency-wise. I say since we live in NE on the water we'll be running the AC like a month out of the year - maybe 2 if we're super lazy, and that the energy loss there shouldn't stop us from doing storms as opposed to sashes. Thoughts? Anyone with storms who use screens in the summer notice crazy elec. bills when you have your AC running?