Hi everyone, wasn't sure I was going to be able to do this swap. Have been sick but am much better. Add my name to the list. Haves: white and purple bleeding heart vine, hidden ginger, white butterfly ginger, pine cone ginger, unknown variegated ginger, bengal tiger canna, yellow/orange canna, black eyed susie vine, red spider lilies, red and yellow crown of thorns cuttings, red/coral shrimp plant, yellow shrimp plant, prayer plant, swiss cheese plant, green and white wandering jew, kitten ear jew, purple and gray jew, green wandering jew, swedish ivy, goldfish plant, night blooming cactus, rick rack cactus, mother of thousands, hen and chicks green, pony tail palm, texas star hibiscus, luna blush hibiscus, aloe vera, tricolor sedum, mother in law tongue, mexican petunia, red candy apple iceplant, elephant sedum, coral reef sedum, pink pursalane, double yellow/pink pursalane, spiral staircase sedum, variegated tropical hibiscus, kerria japonica rose double yellow, red/coral honeysuckle cuttings, silver squill, cast iron plant, drummonds pink phlox, christmas cheer sedum, pink abelia cuttings, curly leaf begonia, different unnamed begonias, blue hydrangea, old cactus (makes yellow flower), unnamed sedum and succelents, red hot poker lily Wants: yellow spider lily, variegated candy apple ice plant, cajun hibiscus, mosquito plant, variegated mosquito plant, mandarin plant, pink lily of the valley, walking iris, pineapple lily other that white, desert rose, yellow butterfly bush, sedums and succelents I don't have, blood lily, hoyas, variegated lipstick plant, begonias I don't have

I'm sorry about your floors. I hope it works out in the end. At least they only have half of the money and you can hold the rest hostage. I also hate when they want half the money up front. After reading many horror stories, I'll no longer hire a company that requires a prepayment. There are plenty of service companies that will take payment up to 30 days after the completion of the job. I've been lucky so far and have received a refund when a fence company kept stalling on me and wanted to put up a fence other than the one I was quoted for.

I love it! That is sure one solid piece! I wish that I took one of those slabs off of your hands, Joshua. It was one of the hardest decisions that I ever made. Truthfully, my granite decision was a mistake, and it's one that I will have to live with. I wanted to keep my cabinets, and I was sure that they wouldn't have done the soapstone justice. I was right, but it turns out it's the same for the granite. We will have to do something anyway. The granite is growing on me, but the one thing that I didn't think about, but remember now that I read it here, is the glare factor on the granite. I have trouble seeing, (40+ year old eyes) so I have to put on the undercabinet lights. When I put on the lights, they shine into my eyes. Vicious circle and one of the benefits of soapstone. Also the water factor. Evaporates on soapstone, leaves spots on granite. Sorry to highjack your thread, but the tie in was I wish that I had helped you get your kitchen earlier...and I mean it. Truthfully, Joshua and Mimi didn't push me and said that they just wanted me to be happy. Now I wish they had been more high pressure!!! Show this to someone who is on the fence!

sis2two -- your kitchen is one that has inspired me along the way! I'm thinking of doing a modified version of this following BS, but I'm not quite sure if it "goes" with my kitchen. Pretty much here I've chosen what I liked, and I like this, but I don't know if it goes with the rest! I'm would use a quieter porcelain version of the marble, so as not to compete with the counter. I'm also considering not using the marble-like porcelain, but perhaps a 6 x 8 white subway, like what segbrown used, but still do the row of glass (sumi-e ongari natural). Flowers -- the cabinets are custom birch with a "wild cherry" stain. The cabinet maker did a wonderful job. The insides are just as pretty as the outside! Thanks for the comment!