Your beautiful chairs are in danger of getting banged up. You could try to "cushion" the edge of the countertop. I'm looking for something to prevent my wood desk chair from getting banged up on the top edge of my desk. There are "edge protector" products for tables, but the ones I've seen look like crap. Something made for cars (side molding) may work. I'm looking for clear molding, and haven't found anything in clear, yet. Here is a link that might be useful: Body Side Molding This post was edited by GypsyWaterfowl on Fri, Aug 30, 13 at 4:13

You know, you should be able to see what his IP address is. Then look it up and you can see where he's located. Looks like this and should be at the bottom of the email he sent you: IP addresses consist of four numbers separated by periods (also called a 'dotted-quad') and look something like 127.0.0.1. The strange thing is that nothing like this text comes up when googling. It sounds quite personalized. Are you sure it couldn't be from a friend or relative who's trying to invite you to Monaco for Valentine's Day? Here is a link that might be useful: IP address

snbtwins- i measured for you, the window wall to fridg wall is 16 feet. the range wall to the end of the island is 12 feet.Hope that helps. Pball- i put the open carved toekick on the spots where it bumps out only, so it stands out. So the sink is bumped out 2 1/2 feet, which i love, it gives me alot of extra room behind the sink and makes it stands out nicely.The fridg and pantry also bump out alittle bit, just enough to distinguish the 2 diff. bottom moldings.I did regular base on the rest. Most people do not do base moldings on their cabinets. I guess they feel you can hit them alot.we don't wear shoes in our house, so for us it's not a problem. I really wanted the finished look on the bottoms.I don't think they consider the island standard. There is a base molding on there. I think standard for them is having it open on the bottom, hope that answers your question.

Thanks for the input everyone! Confession....my architect even drew in three stools, but I thought I could outsmart the island by getting 4 smaller ones. Wishful thinking! @ppbenn The stools are from Restoration Hardware. They are on sale right now. Just a warning, they charge a $149 flat rate for all furniture shipments. This post was edited by rebecca3142 on Thu, Nov 7, 13 at 10:52