I'd definitely prepare the holes at the new house, dig up the plants at the old house and get them right in the ground. You'll want to take up as much of the rootball as possible but you might still want to do a bit of pruning to lessen the stress. I'd also dose them with B1 and superthrive for a couple weeks after transplanting. I'd try moving some of the daturas that way as well. If it's only a 15 minute drive I think that will be easier and less stress then going from ground to pot to ground again. Good luck. They look great. Karyn

Hi all, Can someone help me figure out the difference in power and functioning in the induction cooktops. I have decided to get a 36 inch induction and have been looking at the inductionsite website, but don't really understand what power to look at. I am considering Wolf (5 elements, 2 boost) and Diva (5 elements no boost) and also Electrolux and Miele which are both 5 element, 5 boost. I can't figure out where there is power sharing and from a pure heat capacity per burner, which is better. It seems that Wolf does have an advantage in higher capacity in the largest burner (without and with the boost). But I am really not sure I understand all the implications. Thanks

Me? My suggestions are more for the butler's pantry. One thing I had to have in the new kitchen is horizontal tray storage. This is my mother's design and it works so well! The cabinet maker makes an inner box for a wide cupboard, with slits a few inches apart for 3/8" plywood shelves. They can pull out if needed, but usually it isn't needed. This a a great way to store all those big flat things like the hot tray, serving trays, place mats, turkey platters, etc., etc. I also have vertical storage for smaller, round platters with a shelf above for the doilies. My company flatware is cheap junk that came in its own chests, so I didn't bother with this, but if you have stackable silver, putting fitted holders covered with silvercloth in drawers makes putting the flatware away easy. My good kitchen flatware doesn't stack or I would have done it for the everyday stuff, minus the silvercloth. As to the rest, it sounds like you already have good plans. We each work in different ways, and have different ideas of what needs to be close at hand. So long as you have good places for it all, that's what matters. I'm not sure that the mop in the pantry is a great idea, but I don't see anywhere better. Love the idea of the elevator as a vacuum closet!!!! I seem to have acquired a number of old vacuum cleaners, but the one that lives upstairs never gets used because the Rainbow is so much better. It gets carried up and down. Maybe a good compromise would be to have a handheld dirt devil or electric broom on every level, and just the one main vac? It's the attachments that eat up storage space! Idea: Instead of the beverage fridge in the BP, how about a wine fridge? After all, it's the bottles that are the butler's main purview anyway. That gives a little point of use storage, lets the man have his undercounter fridge, and makes up for a little lost wineroom storage. Re the lost wine storage, carrying multiple bottles of wine upstairs without shaking them every time you have dinner guests could get really old. Call the elevator an oversized dumbwaiter/vacuum closet. And it doesn't really matter about the size of the wine room. I've never seen a wine cellar with room for more than a couple more cases. Usually, the racks are full and there are a few cases on the floor. It's one of those Murphy's type principles. If there's room for a couple cases of today's find, today's find will find a way in and tomorrow's find will be a few bottles only or sit on the floor. True if you have room for 100 bottles, 2000 bottles, or 10000 bottles. If there isn't enough room for things he buys young and wants to lay down, there's always rent-a-vault. Re the stairs, they were pretty, but I think the straight stairs are also more what one expects to see in an older house shaped like yours, so I totally agree with you on the design age. Moreover, I think that gallery wall seen though the open side of the dining room is going to...

azwildcats70, our kitchen layouts are VERY similar (including placement of fridge in a wall with the pantry just past it, a doorway/hall next to that, placement of DW, double ovens, cooktop, etc.... Our kitchen even overlooks a vaulted great room, while the kitchen ceiling is lowered. weird!) :) Your pantry looks great. I like the doors.... I'm glad you're excited about your progress and thanks for sharing :)