Here is H. Love Pat. It is like a smaller version of H. Abiqua drinking Gourd. It is a medium-sized hosta that has an unruly habit with gorgeous corrugated cupped-shaped leaves. Otherwise... my old-time favorite is H. Halcyon and all its sports. But H. Silver Bay, H. Blue Cadet, H. Blue Mouse Ears are all small- medium sized blues. A great mini is H. Popo. Enjoy your hostas! -Ethan

Does anyone have any pics of diamond brite super blue? We will need to decide in a couple of weeks and would love to see a few examples. Thanks for your help

We had Cool Blue Diamond Brite installed about 12 days ago. So far it seems fine (See Pictures below). I'm not sure what "Mottling" is but I've seen what looks like streaks or marbleizing on other pools with darker plasters (the ones where the actual plaster has a base color in addition to the aggregate colors). We chose cool blue because it was based on a white plaster. It has mostly white aggregate with some blue, gray and clear quartz. For those debating the proper installation and exposure methods, the details are in SGMs installation manual: sgm.cc/download/installationmanual-DiamondBrite.pdf Read the section on exposure starting on page 6. There are 3 methods of exposure and depending on which method is used, it could result in some streaking. I can't remember if process "A" (water washing with a brush) was done with our pool but I know the installer used process "B". The pool start-up continued with process "C". During the installation I can remember the plaster guys started wearing foam shoes but I don't remember if they were water washing with brushes (process A) at the time. Here are some pictures of the Cool Blue Diamond Brite Installation: This last one is in the shallow Baja shelf area.

Scootermom - Our kitchen is not huge, but they traffic flow is not through my work space, so it functions so much better than anything i've ever had! The kitchen footprint is about 10'-4" deep by 14'-10" long (these are the wall to wall dimensions inside the opening separating the kitchen from dining, which includes all the cabinetry). My clear workspace between range counter and island is 4 foot, all other clearances are 3 feet. My island is 3'-7" x 4'-9". You can see where I house my dishes and glasses below. On the bottom, the spice pullout is immediately to the right of the range. To the right of that is my baking cabinet and flatware drawer. To the left of the range are all my pots, pans and lids and the cooking/baking utensil drawer. My island holds 2 cabinet boxes, one 39" base that we swapped one drawer for the sink and a 18" cabinet base we converted to a double trash bin pullout. The junk drawer is over the trash bins and the knife/gadget drawer is in the middle. The drawer face at the sink flips out to house srubbies. (Excuse the dishes in sink...) BlackChamois - I like the idea of the vapor bar stools (and the Ghost Stools too), but have been nixed by the husband... He fears they will get scratched, thus ruined, from pocket items, buttons, kids, etc. We both agree we need backs on the stools for comfort and our small children. And we agree the stools should not be black... Here's a close up of our cabinet doors and hardware: see link below for hardware! I bought them in HD at special order desk so I could use my 10 or 20 percent off coupon. The shipping was free, so it was a win/win! white doors SW "rainwashed" doors. this is a very hard color to accurately photograph! It is soft, subtle and changes greatly throughout the day with the different lighting conditions, natural and artificial. *will post another post with Knob link... can't figure out how to do 2 in one post OR do i have the time to figure out the html code Here is a link that might be useful: MSL Pulls