The handle on my #7 surprised me one time by coming off - usually it's the spring that does that! Anyway, that handle will pull off, you can clean it and oil it, and it will work just fine for decades. brian

I have the corners you have posted, but I do not have the hinged doors. I have two doors on the upper and two doors on the lower. It looks to me like you must consider two things: 1) are you willing to give up the bank of lower drawers to the right of your range to (or make them smaller) to accommodate the corner you want? 2) are you willing to lose the symmetry between the upper and the lower that your schematic illustrates, if you do change the bank of drawers. When I was working on my kitchen, I did not want a blind corner and the lack of symmetry between the upper and lower did not bother me and still doesn't. It looks like your kitchen is large enough to sacrifice that bank of drawers to accommodate that corner if that is what you want. I like my corner a lot. Let me know if you want more pics.

We're in Southwest Idaho (not far from Boise) and it's a true East (back)/West (front) facing home. Morning sun in the back, afternoon sun in the front. I specifically thought about this with room placement. In the summer the evening sun is very hot. Downstairs, only the office and guest room will have full sun, while the large foyer window will let light in to the back of the house which will be shaded at that point. Two of my kids will have to deal with sunny evening bedrooms- but this is why curtains were invented. ;)

I really do have to step away soon, but... "I get it. "we have much different perspectives." and yours is acceptable and mine isn't." Well I literally have a PhD focused in project analysis, you know... things like behavioral economics, net present value, opportunity costs, marginal value, marginal cost... I am sure that architects spend years studying to develop their perspective on value also. So, to answer your question honestly, I don't know anything about design, but I do believe I have the upper hand when we move to value discussions and can hold my own in process analysis.