"Line of beauty"... hmmm... one of those things Southerners picked up on and believe to the core! Many people have tried to "explain" beauty, but I don't think anyone has succeeded yet. (If someone has, the world is not listening or on the same page.) My gut reaction to Hogarth was that he was a long way off from identifying the cause and structure of beauty....even though he was immersed in thoroughly analyzing some of its components. I attended one of Mike Lin's LA graphics classes back in the 80's. He'd delve out an assignment and we'd all work like crazy for barely-enough-time and then everything would be posted on the wall for a critique. Mike would always get a laugh because of his ultra-simplification of the notion of beauty. When critiquing student work, he'd say in his great Chinese accent, "What wrong with this??"...the answer was always, "Because it LOOK BAAAD!" And of course, the converse, "Why you like this??..."Because it LOOK GOOOD!!" Few of us could say WHY something looks good, but most of us could agree that it does, if that's the case. I find that something automatically looks bad to me if: ...its connections look structurally or mechanically weak or inferior. ...or if an object looks not built to last as long as it should... as when the "edges" of an object are weaker (or no stronger) than the "field"... so that the object looks insufficiently "self protected." Masonry walls where the cap stone is no thicker than the wall stone fall into this category for me. ...or if something looks like it is without purpose. Every bleeping bloop of wiggly bed edge is especially bothersome if it's going around nothing in particular...just stuff! Why is it there if there's no thing for it to go around? If there was some specific thing in each bulge, it would seem that, at least, it was trying to conjure up some purpose. My thinking when routing the edge of a bed goes something like wondering, "after here, where am I going next?" if the answer is left, I will not go right first. I may go straight and then left or I may go left and then straight (relative to the original position)... but I will not go right. Thinking of the same issue in the vertical, it always seems wrong/silly to connect two differing elevations (that are relatively near one another) with a path that causes one to go both up AND down (or down and up) in order to reach the other destination. It seems pointless. Just go up. Or just go down. Of course, there seem always to be instances where one must "break the rules" (even though they've never been properly laid out and recorded.) This all means that Hogarth left work. There's still plenty to do.

Thanks. I have been to this sale. It's capped at $5 or $8 and most are older varities. A different model would be to allow a 50/50 sale, where members can bring newer varieties and get 50% of the proceeds.

Thank you so much Cheryl. The floor plans are very helpful. Our kitchen is 13’3” wide as well, but only 14’5.5” long so we are hoping to put full depth cabinets on 3 sides with a 30”x 72” island. That would give us 39.5” wide isles. Do you think that will be fine? I am so used to living with an L kitchen without an island so this is new for us, but we want to better utilize the space we have. We have been testing out the layout with a banquet table that size and it seems like we have plenty of room, but I worry once we have all the cabinets installed it will feel/look more crowded.

measure them and make sure they both fit. but should be ok. you don't want something too big. just enough to fit comfortably under the table.