I have gotten many from Don at Porterhowse Farms. Some from Stanley and Sons, others from r&r a sister to Porterhowse where Don referred me to sometimes for bigger and have had a semi bring them to me for my place and some projects I had done in the past and some I got lucky and found at a local dealer. Not many locally though. I could design this by myself as I have done so in the past but I just thought that picking peoples ideas that are truly experienced with this would help me make the best choices possible. I am just asking for suggestions from people and will make the final decisions after I look up the plants in question as to space requirements etc. I hope people don't think I am getting lazy. I just like suggestions from those that are in the know. I will take some pics and get them out sometime.

Great room standing in the hallway/foyer looking at the fireplace into the hearth room/kitchen beyond the doorway. Standing in the foyer with my back to the front door looking into the great room at the two doors leading out to the deck. Standing with my back to the dining room shooting into the great room.

What if you took a 12" upper cabinet and then added feet to it? Bun feet come to mind, but I'm sure you could choose another style as well. If you google "bun feet" there are lots of different styles, and they're not that pricey. If you go for a black cab, it would be a simple thing to paint the feet with black acrylic to match. A top cab would still need a top of some sort. The sky is the limit. Granite. Routed and sanded board or plywood and painted/stained to match or contrast. Maybe run a little molding under the top, similar to crown molding, but a bit perhaps more delicate. You could even have a piece of glass cut to fit on top and use the shallow boxed in area underneath as a shadow box display, if that's to your taste. Sounds like it could be a fun project. : )

I agree with jerseygirl and live with the space for awhile before committing major changes and you can do an accent wall if there's not a good place for change of paint color. I'm in the process of picking colors with 5 rooms connecting and another 2 thru doors/doorways. I love saturated color. I have 4 reds on my DR wall and will pick one when I pick the copper in the sitting room (3 choices on wall) and greens (4 choices) in the office. The kitchen is already Hawthorne yellow and the half bath is Blue Lapis. The music room will be the 2 lilac colors that got rejected from the sitting room. I'm tying all the rooms together with the same color trim - white dove. My 185 year old fire places are all different marbles - gotta try to strip one that was painted. The main rooms have natural oak floors and the minor rooms fir (over 100 years old). I'm not too worried about the other woods in the rooms - I just make it work for that room. I have cherry in my kitchen, mahogany in the DR, and black walnut doors. I've been living with 3' x 4' paint swatches for weeks until something speaks to me. The 1st time I threw up lilac in the sitting room I knew it was wrong. I had some friends who are good with color help me pick another scheme (copper). I have a dark purple couch and chair for that room. Even though one color might work great in one room with the furniture, they all need to play "nice" together when viewed from room to room. I picked a red I love but I don't know how it will play with the green and copper so I'm holding off until i figure out the other rooms. I did start with a designer to help me narrow down my choices so I can get painting sooner. (I could have probably done it but it would have taken me a year!) She kept saying "This is so much fun, I should be paying you." What she suggested is have one tying feature - for me it's the same color trim from room to room.