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Oh good, Julie -- and you've got some good loot! So, how do people clean these seeds? What kind of equipment do you all have? Right now I am using 2 collanders and 2 strainers with different sized screens. To say my seed is chaffy is an understatement, but on a lot of them, I can't figure out what the seed even is (Filipendula for example). Others, like ageratum, I thought you were supposed to crumble the seed heads, but that would naturally include the browned petals. The heuchera is the same way, but in that case it's the short little stems of each individual flower that fall through the screens. On Victoria Salvia, I have to individually roll each seed pod between my fingers to get what appears to be a single seed out, and I have 1000s. On marigolds, not all the seeds are heavy and black -- some are light gray or white. I have 10,000s of those -- no way I am going to fish out the light gray ones and blowing on the plate was a disaster of the 1st magnitude, but thank goodness I did it outside! I can NOT be doing this right! It's hours and hours and hours just to clean & that's not including the packing & labeling. I heard some people are making their seed packs from scratch -- now how in the heck do you have time for that? All-in-all I would say I might get a bad reputation from my dirty seed. Lime P.S. Would a salad spinner do any good for anyof these seeds? I think I need to mechanize! LOL!

For us, undercabinet lights were only mildly necessary. We plan on a light colored backsplash and our recessed cans put out a ton of light on the counters. Plus, most of the work we do at the counter is on the island, under the pendant lights. The undercab lights are really there for two reasons: to add a splash of extra light in a few slightly darker areas and to use as occasional nightlight/mood lighting in the kitchen when we have guests. Given how we planned to use our undercabinet lighting, our electrician recommended that we use rope lights. They aren't at all what I pictured when he said that. I thought he meant those flexible plastic tubes with lights in them, but these are rigid fixtures that operate in much the same way as all the other undercab lights I've seen. They aren't as bright as some undercab lights, but that was a plus for us. We didn't want strong, bright lights, just a bit of extra task lighting. They are hardwired, don't use a lot of energy compared with other lights, and are very cool to the touch. We have been very happy with them. Oooh, I almost forgot to mention that they were VERY inexpensive!

@Cherie I've definitely had that thought, but I feel that the longer we wait to do this project the harder it gets to deciding what we want. I've found that the more I think about this project the more unsure I've become really. This post was as close to we got to feeling like things were set to go...but given how this thread is going maybe taking extra time is the way to go @kariyava i actually love that all sand look...I showed it to my partner and we are considering using the sand britstone we chose with nickel fixtures just like it. but I think the stone we chose might a bit darker than the photo...might have to rethink the tile. As much as i like it I do worry that with double shower heads the bathroom might look a little crowded , and I'm not sure the spacious look would translate as well in a smaller bathroom with 8 ft ceilings