Nita - I'm sooooo excited! I get out of work at 5 so I could be there (or anywhere) by 6 or so. Would you want to go to Cody's Original Roadhouse or would you like to try something different? Is Timm going to join us?

Awww, Terri...too bad you couldn't keep her longer and had a mini canny camp. Canning season is a nice time to have grunt....er....visitors drop in. So. Jessy. You do know Washington is right next door to Idaho, don't you?

Maybe ORB on all the cabinets to go with the pantry door hardware? I think those would go fine with your lights, and be less stark than black on the cream island. I also think it's more important to match door hardwares than door hardware to lights. To me, the first chandelier looks Tuscan and the last one looks more French Country. (But that's only an impression, no real knowledge of authenticity of those styles.) Would you use the hooks on the last chandelier? With the structure it has (rods and loops attached to the chain by hooks), it looks more related to your table fixture, even though I kind of like the first fixture better and think it would look great over your glazed cream island. Bottom line: I think either will look nice with the cabinets and fine with the table fixture, so go with what you like best. No matter which you choose I think I can pretty much guarantee that no one will come into your lovely kitchen and say that it's all great except for 'that fixture.' ;-)

We built a factory on farmland-turned-industrial park. Our building was done before the roads, so the city built us a temporary gravel road in the back way. We had to give verbal directions to everyone to find us. Within a year, google knew our building was there and it routed people down the gravel road. I was impressed. 18 months after moving in, the permanent roads opened and the city tore out the gravel back road. We had to begin giving verbal directions to everyone about the new way to find us, as the roads weren't yet on google maps. Those roads have been open a year now, and google maps still steers people to the (former) gravel road, that is now a mud path. Trucks have gotten stuck. People have cut across fields, blindly following google. A year ago I submitted corrections to google maps. Nothing has changed yet. The former gravel road now shows on google as "unnamed road" (more permanent than before). I am no longer impressed. Sorry, can't help you. I'm at a loss. :-/