You can order them unfinished from www.signaturehardware.com. You can even choose the wood species. That's what we did, and then we painted them to match. I also bought some for the floor and stained them to match. Hope this helps!

They'll figure out it's a mistake when they go to put the appliances in. DW's sit on the floor and should not have a vent located under them.

Heat pump. Vent at kitchen and powder room sink. Barefoot much of the time. Not an issue for me. 90 degree air moving is warm. Not hot but plenty warm. Now in the summer, my feet get s little cold... I find the heat pump cool air effect is overblown. What I think is noticeable is when you are a little further from the vent. Then the air cools say to 75 and the movement feels cool. Distance from vent makes perfect sense -- thank you very much!!!

Oh thanks Mike---I'll check into those options. The HVAC PM said they would have to special order the duct and asked for my husband to send him the measurement for the ducts to the toe kicks. The kitchen one is extremely close to the front of the toekick -we'd originally planned for a furring wall on our log wall (so the cabinet was thought to be placed 3 inches further out from the wall when the ducts were put in) -and then later, removed the furring wall so the cabinets will go directly on the logs. The cabinet guys said the duct will work fine--it will just be a small space after the 90 degree to the toe kick register. The cabinet guys are here-they said they could leave the toe kick off so that the duct could be installed later--but I dont know how its going to happen with the cabinet already in place even without the toe kick--we may need to cut out the floor of the cabinet in order to secure the duct...tbd. To make it more complicated-its on unsealed gypcrete--so we cant screw anything into the floor-and will need to seal around it if we want to glue anything to the floor (we've been told its impossible to get things to glue to unsealed gypcrete long term. Oh man. Appreciate your help.