If you don't wish to register, check to see if you have an app called OneNote (likely if you already have ppt), or in Win8 a Metro app called SnippingTool. For OneNote, you need to have the OneNote icon in your taskbar (likely at the bottom of your screen). Make sure the picture is on your display. Click on the little pyramid-looking icon (which when you hover on it will say "Display Hidden Icons") and then *right* click on the OneNote icon. The screen will change to look like a veil is on it and a crosshair mouse pointer will appear. Move the crosshair to one corner of what you want to copy and then holding down the left button, draw to the opposite corner, and release the button. A window will popup where you can click on "Copy to Clipboard" and then paste into PowerPoint. For the SnippingTool in Win8, again have the image you want displayed on the screen. Then go to the Start screen and click on the SnippingTool icon. It will take you back to the app you just had open (with your image) and selection is very similar to OneNote. HTH

Or because you trusted what you saw online vs. a chip in your hand and a sample in your own space, you missed out on a legitimate contender for a pretty gold. Because you have zero information about the quality of the actual photo, the camera used, the lighting or how the file was saved for the web - or even if the paint color was correctly identified. I can't say it enough, that there is absolutely nothing about viewing color on a monitor that is trustworthy or useful. Anything's possible of course but I think tell ten or so photos I looked at that all told the same story...were likely telling a similar story. I need all the help I can get and online research is the second tool in the toolbox after my fandecks. I look for multiple photos of any color I'm considering and use them to help me narrow down my options, since I'm not inclined to put up a million samples, especially since I'm now paying $10 a sample (!!!) Once my options are a bit narrower, I go to tool 3, start sampling. Unfortunately I can't commit to every chip... I'm now on my fourth gold sample...$40 down the drain already, and I haven't even lifted up a roller, all from small chips I thought looked perfectly nice in the space. I have an unfortunate combo of good color sensitivity and pickiness with low prediction of how a paint chip will translate to an entire room. And laziness over painting, which I detest.

I'm pretty good at doing my own decorating, but used a designer to help me when I was new to this area and didn't know where to shop. She is a decent designer, but her business skills were terrible. I was her cash cow for months, getting invoices monthly for $1,500 to $2000 for hourly fees that she refused to itemize. Lots of smoke and mirrors in her billing. In my area consumers can window shop in one of the major to-the-trade design centers. I became friends with the manager at one of the showrooms and found out that my designer did not pass on the discounts that her contract spelled out. She was billing hours and then markup on retail. Her response to this was to change her contract to make it even more vague (in her favor) and try to have me sign it! We parted ways, but live in the same area, so I have made it a point, when appropriate, to mention her name as the designer to avoid. I have emails and statements to back up all my complaints. I did find another designer to consult on my projects. She is great at design and the complete opposite of the first one when it comes to business/billing ethics!

@3onthetree I won't have time for adding more dimensions to drawings until a few days from now, but I can quickly answer your questions/address assumptions: - "Stand at the Mudroom and look towards Dining." There is no mudroom. I'm assuming you are referring to my current kitchen, which will be a sitting room/office. The impetus for this remodel is that the house has terrible flow! The door closest to the street and near the carport is the existing kitchen door. This means everyone (me, visitors, etc.) enter into the kitchen. The original house designer put the "front" door in the back, which doesn't work for many reasons. So, the current kitchen will get a spiffed up exterior entry landing, and be converted into an entry area and sitting room/office. The dining room turns into the kitchen. The dining room table moves into the living room and the living room furniture moves a bit. Flow issues mainly solved. - "You see the linen bumpout, whatever #3 is, an opening (barn door?), 2 doors for laundry (wide cabinet doors), a counter inset (coffee), then 2 more doors (slim cabinet doors). Add to that the island, and are those 3 skylights above?" The "linen bumpout" would be flush with my desk and the coat closet, so it should read as a smooth wall. The architect thinks there is a post somewhere near #3--I don't think there is, but there is a bump out, although it sounds hollow. There are 4 planned skylights--two in the entry/office/sitting room and two in the kitchen. They correspond with the new "walkway" through the house. The architect has not accommodated my requests to make a series of doors all the same width along the laundry/pantry/coffee alcove wall. But I measured it out and it can be done. The result would look something like this image of cabinets below: The door is a pocket door, not a barn door. Need to be able to keep the cats out of the "office" when I work. "Continue to the Dining/Living, and it's very simple and elemental there. - The forced items from the wish list seem over-detailed to make them work. Is having an 18" sink, that will splash up onto the sides of the millwork cabinets and has no counter space to set anything, worth the detailing?" No. Agree that it's not worth it. "Is using the stud spaces in the Pantry (a great idea for tiny houses) worth the cost and detailing of a finished backside of the wall material and custom cut shelving?" Yes, because the closet is only about 30" wide, so to get side shelves, you need to go into the studs. My husband likely will make those shelves. "Is the W/D, which has its own smells, humidity, and lintiness, worth it to be near baking supplies or compete with coffee smells?" There is no good place for the laundry. Currently, the laundry is in the kitchen. I played with moving the machines everywhere you can image--all locations are compromises. Laundry generally occurs on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so it's not an all the time thing. I do between 2 and 4 loads per week (with WFH, more like 4, but when I go back to the office, it will be 2 with my work clothes going to the dry cleaner). "The linen needing a custom millwork door size?" All the cabinets will be custom. I want to put my money into the carpentry because I think the return will be great. "So how to fix these examples? Can laundry be moved to the future bath remodel?" The bathrooms are tight. Laundry cannot go in the bathrooms. "Can paint brushes be washed outside or later in another laundry area?" I could add a sink outside. Agree with this suggestion. "Can the entire wall be a simple, uniform cabinet face with storage (both appliance and pantry) and hidden coffee shelf?" Yes! That is what is planned! "Then can this tradeoff of these fixes pay dividends by not needing shelving blocking the windows? It doesn't always work, but KISS might provide relief in other ways." I'm not a huge fan of the shelf in front of the window and don't plan to store anything I need to move on a regular basis on it (I live in earthquake country). I did think it would be nice for my small potted succulents; I can use museum wax to make sure they don't fall off and pots add color to what is otherwise planned to be a wood and white kitchen. "Other thoughts: - Tough call on moving the window. I am trying to zoom the photo if the operable side can be eliminated up to the center picture window (if mulled together) instead of moving the whole unit." I'm getting new windows :). So mulling can be as needed to match cabinetry lines, sink placement, etc. "But it seems the payoff of moving the exact same window over 15" isn't worth it." Agree. "- Wing wall: surprised there is not a roof post there in addition to the 6 switches." There is a post, but at the far end of the wing wall. "- Washer depth 32" is front to back - common 26" deep + 4" duct" The dryer is ductless and the washing pipes can go in the stud wall. I need 29.5" of depth at a minimum. "- Option 2 has a range hood on the Office pocket door (mounting + vibration)" True. Hadn't thought about this. - There are ways to do things that might ease a bit of the costs, for instance moving/reducing the window: with the siding, you can bring in another color/material/pattern and possibly continue the design language similar to this concept: