This is my FAVORITE FAVORITE GW kitchen. It has soul and personality. I look at your pictures and just want to wander in there and linger, feeling the coziness and healing properties of that welcoming and nurturing space. It feels like a li'l ol' soft grandma with arms outstretched waiting to hug me. It does NOT remind me of so many cold, hard casket like fancy kitchens in the pictures. This one has a warm heartbeat throughout. Fantastic job, and I'm sure with the elbow grease/blood/sweat/tears you put into her you'll love her all the more over the years!!

I would definitely be suggestive! Last summer my home sale fell through just before closing because of a job loss. Unfortunately, we had already moved everything out. In the two months it was empty we got a lot of negative comments about the floor plan and layout of the house. We put a table with 4 chairs in the dining room, placemats on the table, a sofa and chair in the living room, an accent table in the foyer, a chair by the fireplace in the family room, a table and 4 chairs in the breakfast nook, 2 stools by the kitchen peninsula with full place settings on the counter, one picture on the mantle, towels in the bathrooms, pillow shams and throw pillows to suggest bed placement in the bedrooms, a simple desk and chair in an extra room to suggest an office, and a tv stand to suggest TV placement in the rec room basement. In our case some of the smaller areas looked a lot bigger with a little furniture in them. Having something in each room gave it just a little more warmth, and I think it's hard for some people to make an emotional connection to an empty house. Some of the furniture we took out of our new house, some we borrowed, and some we bought at Ikea. After we did the staging we got a lot of "shows really well" comments and no more negative floor plan comments. We talked to one staging company, and they were planning to do only the living room, dining room, breakfast nook, and master bedroom.

This forum is awesome! Thank you everyone! I really appreciate everyone's time. I'm fortunate that storage/cabinet space isn't a big problem for me. In addition to the large built-in canning cabinet off the kitchen, I have a walk-in pantry off the dining room. It's not huge (it's about 5x8 if I remember correctly), but it's big enough for one wall of base cabinets with countertop then lots of open shelving to the ceiling. I plan on having a small bar sink installed there then keeping my bread maker and food dehydrator and my not-often-used coffee maker out on the counter for easy, out-of-the-way use. I'm even considering putting the microwave in there; I've been trying to really pay attention and evaluate just how much we use it (which hasn't been at all in the past week so far). Then the majority of my other small appliances will live in there and be brought to the kitchen when needed (except for my stand mixer -- I'd like for it to stay in the kitchen). Oh, we also have a countertop convection oven that needs a home in the kitchen. My biggest concern is countertop space. That's the thing I'm so short on in my current kitchen, and it drives me batty. I have about 2 linear feet to each side of my sink right now, and that's it for countertop, so I feel like I'm hyper-aware of counter space for my new kitchen. I like the idea of a rolling cart with a butcher block top, mama goose, and those pull out cabinets are a neat idea too that I haven't seen before. Thank you for those links! Definitely some ideas for me to chew on. I've been using a 30" range all my cooking life and have done ok, so I've really waffled on this. (I do love the idea of those duel fuel ranges, and I keep going back to look at them whenever I start to doubt the 36" cooktop). I have to admit I'm a slightly messy cook who likes to have multiple pots/skillets going at the same time. I get frustrated sometimes with my 30" because I can barely have 2 burners in use at once, never mind all 4. I did look at a cooktop/wall oven underneath setup at Lowe's this past weekend, buehl. I was definitely shocked at how much lower the oven sits in that arrangement. I knew it did, but until I actually felt the movement of opening the oven door, I didn't realize just how much lower they were. It's not an absolute deal breaker for me, but it has definitely been on my mind and made me pause. Cluelessincolorado, the thought of making the counters deeper hadn't even crossed my mind. That's something for me to consider, too. To your question, with the u-shape configuration, I was considering putting the sink/dishwasher in the leg of the U against the wall so that I could unload the dishes from the dishwasher straight into a cabinet above.

I think that I would put both up towards the rounded corners, the upper right corner for instance. You want to set them far enough back that if you were picking something up from out of the sink and turning towards the right side that neither the faucet nor the handle will get in your way. However with the corner sink you need to be careful that they are still both easily accessible (not too far from the user) because there is a little more countertop between the person and the sink than there is in a normal sink-counter set up. Several people with corner sinks have actually been very upset about how far back in the cabinet sink has been placed I would look into that because if you were still at the ordering stage and you wanted to you could install a regular corner and put the sink next to the dishwasher. That would give you more prep area between the sink and the stove. I can't speak as to the Kohler carbon, people seem to like it but others find it to be too stiff. If possible, I would try to use one before ordering.