I looked at Rate My Space one time a few months ago and thought I'd never be brave enough to post any pics of MY house, not one room! I'm spoiled here, cause everyone is so kind.

'Course, there's nothing to criticize about YOUR kitchen and your drawers are simply fabulous. I wanted drawers in my banquette, but didn't know how to make them and didn't want to take the time to learn, so compromised with the lift-up lids - inconvenient storage is better than no storage. Your morgue drawers are the best I've seen.

I've gotta re-visit that site now tho. I could use some ideas and, yeah, I'm still a little TKO myself.

kitchenkelly, you really ARE TKO if you can't get to the real outside now that spring is here, LOL!!!

I have just one. There were supposed to have been two but the cabinet maker didn't get the concept I was going for.

Anyway, I can store a 25# bag of flour and get to it easily. I have also been able to put it back in opened and clipped shut without messy spills.

I love it!

Hi lily! One of the reasons I put my kitchen out there was to see if I would get bad ratings! Everyone here is really nice so I was just plain curious. I added other spaces because I thought they could be helpful. It is a neat site but I am not crazy about the posting methodology. Someone asks you a question and then you post your answer on their space. Kinda wacky. There are some regulars (especially on the gardening side.)

AND, here in MN we don't have too much spring. Last Monday we got seven inches of snow. Most of it is gone but we don't get spring for another month. ARGHH. I have the spring fever!

BTW, give Ricky a hug for me.

Hey imrainey, I remember all the problems with your cabinetmaker. Wasn't he the slowest cabinetmaker in all the land?

Glad you got at least one drawer.

Kitchenkelly, do you think they may be afraid of ending up in one of those drawers if they don't give you a high enough rating? ;)

Seriously, though, I'm glad they appreciate your gorgeous kitchen as much as we do. They can be brutal over there!

Yup! But we're 99.7% done and none of the finish details are the cabinets anymore.

We ended cordially. And in the end I got what I wanted including the distressed finish from the Hungarian artist.

I'm not recommending him to anyone, mind you. But I'm really delighted with the look and function and he was willing to send installers back for a lot of minor tinkering and adjustments of drawers until everything important was satisfactory. It was a year + but it ended well.

Can't believe you still remember that! ;>

kk--ditto what holligator said! I sure wouldn't want to say anything that would win me a one-way trip to those drawers! LOL!!!

I had originally claimed that I was too thin-skinned to post my kitchen on RMS, but I did it on a whim. Only one person was a bit overly critical, but several folks stepped in to defend my space!

BTW, I am blessed to still have my kitchen. Spring in the South arrives with thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding sometimes. Parts of the city I live in were devastated by tornadoes Thursday night. A policeman's patrol-car camera even caught one of the twisters on video as it moved through the lot of a car dealership. My DH and I viewed some of the devastation today. We suffered minor flooding to a bathroom. Thank goodness we have a concrete-walled closet that serves as a storm shelter!

holligator, I know that some are a little mean and give not so nice scores. I think I always rate spaces high because I know how much time goes into them. Are you over there? Where is your link?

imrainey, of course I remember your post. Can't wait to see the finished digs!

catmom, you definitely should put your kitchen over there! I have never seen a glass backsplash over there. They would go ga-ga over your kitchen.

amcofar, I am so sorry to hear about the tornadoes! That is so scary. We get them in MN too but luckily I have never been close to one. Glad to hear you are safe. Sorry about the bathroom.

OK KitchenKelly,

(I love illeration!), your morgue drawers truly inspired me! It think your thread was my first GW experience!! So, we're building a banquette and we're storing the dog food in our morgue drawers. But I cannot find reasonablly priced glides!!! I'd like them to be 48" long. Do you/your GC have a source you'd recommend?

Wow bethv, I was your first? I am surprised you came back. lol

And 48"? Nice! Dog food huh? Mine are less than 3 feet. The cabinet guy would be the one I would ask and I would rather not contact him. (Long story.) Anyhoo, I have googled "full extension drawer glides" and have found many sources before. Even Amazon.com has them. Just make sure that they are rated for the correct weight. I think they are a little spendy. But if you want to hold 50 lbs they might have to be.

Good luck!

KK of course your infamous morgue drawers are doing well on Rate my space! whats not to like? You have a gorgeous kitchen! and, of course, a little fear does go a long way ;) Sue

Oops, didn't realize you lived in the frozen north! Well, your spring is coming soon, surely.

I found your kitchen on RMS; in fact, I looked at all your pics and your whole house is gorgeous! Loved all your pics - I'm more than just TKO, also suffer from THO in general. Love what you did with the little powder room, it's darling. Are the toilet and sink on the 4' or 5' wall? I'm wondering cause I'm wanting to add a powder room in the hopefully not too distant future and it'll also be a tiny space. I may even copy your wainscoting idea and the pretty sconces and, heck why not, even the octogonal window if I can afford it.

So glad you got the runner on the staircase for Buddy. I always had to carry Pepe upstairs at night and then back down in the morning. When we first moved here, he couldn't get traction and fell half-way down, poor baby, so after that I always carried him. And I always meant to get that runner but was waiting til we finished work in the stair hall, and really I didn't mind carrying him - just another excuse to cuddle. Ricky bounds up and down the stairs like it's nothing. Oh, and he thanks you for the hug, cause he loooooves hugs!!!

Hi kitchenkelly,
I just posted a new message about trying to locate your mirage tiles in military green. Any contact numbers for me? I've called a lot of places and no one has them. I'm in Bergen County NJ, but willing to travel.Close to NY too.

Do you love your tile? Easy to clean? Love, Love your kitchen!!

Thanks!
Paula

LOL cooperbailey Sue.

Hi lily. That is the five foot wall. I love that little powder room, but my sister HATES that window. There is no good looking window covering for it so I leave it unadorned. In the spring, summer and fall I have a hanging fern outside on the porch so there is privacy. In the winter there is nothing and who cares? Peeping Toms are not out in the snow. Plus, the window is up pretty high. Everytime she uses that room she always yells, "OK kelly's neighbors, you will be seeing me in the bathroom now." lol.

On the staircase, Cassidy didn't have an issue. Just Buddy. I think one fall did it.

Hi Paula, I did leave you a message on your original post. HTH.

The morgue drawers are doing well on Rate my Space

It's no wonder-- they're a bunch of STIFFS over there!!

I crack myself up. :-)

lol, Bill. We now know that you moonlight as a stand-up comedian?

Hey-- it was there. I had to use it!! :-)