Thank you all for your opinions. I especially love that you confirmed it would be okay. Don't think I can have too much of that fabric...it's a soft rayon blend chenille. Thanks for the ideas about pillows, too. Will be fun to look for coordinating fabric. If you run across any in your searches, please think of me. Olychick

Another vote to square off the kitchen. Angles are just too hard to work around. I have 48" from cabinet to cabinet, so probably about 46" clear around my island where it is opposite the sink and range and it's plenty of room. Also, my granite on the island measures exactly 48" wide x 90" long and it is big enough to seat 4 people. I wouldn't want it any wider as I can just reach across to clean it and I'm tall. That 90" length enabled me to put out a huge buffet a few weeks ago. I don't think you need the 107" long island. Also, I don't think you should have your island sticking out past the confines of the kitchen. Why don't you try measuring out the 36" x 90" you have in your drawing somewhere so you can get a feel as to how big it will be. I think you will be surprised. It has been my experience that some items look much smaller on a floor plan than they do in real life.

well replacement is here actually-it's all sorts of whites. Folks are very much into white now. see it as very "fresh" lol (I lived with white for years-to me it's a color than can be wonderful under many circumstances and wrong under others. As colors go.) there are so many whites that some of them will be actually off whites or light greiges or very very light greens, or creams, or whatnot..depending on how cool or warm they are, and how they're tinted people also shift back to warmer tones. and they like deep jewel tones-goes for years already, actually but it all doesn't mean that if somebody loves gray (which has hundred of shades too)-he shouldn't go with it, and can't do so very successfully yes there is such thing as too much gray actually as I think of it it might be that any color can get too much what colors signal to us? life. in a very few situations, with no possibility of escape, even most prevalent in nature colors, most happy, most calming, most life signaling ones can start signifying the opposite say blue of sky and sea-most natural, right? but for example one gets stuck on a boat in an ocean. for a long time. in a lonely situation, more or less my guess is-at some point he won't find these blues calming or happy or anything like that. He'll want change of scenery, pronto. Even though these blues are complex and incredibly beautiful and everchanging and never just blues. Same thing with white. If you live with snow it's one thing. If you're locked up in a white room-you'll get sensory deprivated after a while. Since things won't change around you like they normally do. Now, in normal situation, like you, B Sting, describe, in a house with non-gray wood flooring, and different art, and furnishings, and textures, and some other paints -you get a normal situation. A life-signaling one. When your eye wants to travel-it travels)) It's not limited to one choice only, with no readily given possibility to escape. Make sure you love the colors you choose, make sure they work with your house in your light, and between themselves, make sure it's the vibe you're going for-different people look for different vibe in their house as their prevalent one. You can always add or substract as you go, you'll feel it, the amount of color you need..vary your textures..listen to the house and yourself-and you'll see that it's not some stagnant relationship..it'll develop. Your home will be much more than your wall color. Like in life, usually -it'll be many things together. Don't worry..you'll be good. Congratulations on your new place, happy decorating..and sorry for my long musing, I really find this topic interesting-what do we find too much, when, and why.

I really do need the extra storage! I think if it's 42" from the sink that it will greatly enhance my work zone adding so much additional counter space. I would only put stools where the one is in the photo and where the window is, so out of the work zone. Where that stool is now would be a 36" cabinet that I could store items that are used infrequently. The sink side would be for the kitchen aid, vitamix, cuisinart, juicer and cutting boards etc. My cabinets are still in really good condition and are maple. I thought staining them dark would be too much darkness so my only other option is to paint them or replace them. My budget is only $20,000 so don't think replacement is possible.