Lucretzia, if you are still here, could you share the price of your Walker Zanger Shabui backspash tile? Its really gorgeous. In fact, your whole kitchen is gorgeous!!! Hope you are enjoying it. Or, does anyone know of anything similar? Before I get too hooked on Lucretzia's tile, I'd love to know whether the price is realistic to consider. I have creamy cabs, soapstone,grey tile with a little taupe in it and light beige walls. A few cherry cabs, too. Anyone have ideas for me? Tried all sorts of shades of subways and they dont look right. Cararra subways look best, but would like to see if there is a more casual option. This is the LAST big decision to make, and my brain is fried. Now I see why so many have such a tough time picking a backspash!!

Sabrina Alfin Interiors thanks for your input.. i just emailed my KD to see if we have an option for the corner wall.. TBH I have a blind wall corner now which i do not like and have had the angle wall before and liked it.. regarding fridge - the plan on this post was the first one and i was intending a filler for fridge door clearance but we have are reworking it to add a 12" tall cabinet (96" high) on left of fridge... am waiting on the revised plans... redsilver i have had veined floors before and liked them.. backsplash will be solid.. quartz counter does not have as much veining.. the floors will be throughout the 1st floor including guest room, bathroom & laundry room... i looked at solid white and very little veining white and did not like it.. ma in Michigan thank you... i am super excited.. at 51 years old to be redoing another kitchen.. exactly how i want.. i am not worried about resale to be honest.. this home will most likely go to the kids.. jackitriplett - the quartz i found has very little vein but may go look at some without vein as well..

This is the final - I hope - plan for my kitchen renovation.. taking the cabinets to the ceiling with the stacked top.. still need to choose a floor!!

Thank you all for your comments and advice, it is very much appreciated. I met with a design person from a local cabinet company on Saturday and he sent me some preliminary concepts. @Bob W - Thank you, it was my husband's vest that he wore all the time and I don't have the heart to remove it as he always hung it on the chair when he took it off. @live_wire_oak - thank you for your input. I work for attorneys so I am going to have them review the contract prior to signing. I meet with the contractor next week. @Patricia Colwell - Thank you. I am going to get rid of the oversized pub table as well as the small bench sitting under the mirror. I plan on putting a much smaller standard height square table and/or rectangle to sit maybe 3/4 people. I am a cooker so I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. As far as storage, I have more than enough as it is just me. I do have a dining room (below) off of the kitchen, which after the kitchen is complete, I may or may not put a small dining room table in there. It is empty right now. I have had it both ways over the years (i.e. dining table and I also had it as just another sitting room). It never really got used as a dining room. My budget is around $50,000.00 so I would like to stay around that. Considering the house was built in the 30's. I have been getting bids for the job for over a year now and have had contractors bids from $45,000.00 to $75,000.00 but that also included the back porch and bathroom. The bathroom has already been completed. The contractor that I am going with (I have not signed the contract - meeting next week) has bid the job at around $45,000.00 including materials. We are supposed to go over specifications when we meet. I have a detailed list of my specifications which need to be included with the contract. @Design Girl I'm not going to change the layout, other than I am going to extend the cabinets over a little i.e. on the other side of the stove and also extending over to the doorway to the back porch door. I have also asked him to send me an image with white cabinets as well. As far as the LVP flooring, I have it just about in my entire house. Unfortunately when I started renovating back in 2017, the only wood flooring in the house was a mess and could not be salvaged when I tore out carpeting, so I opted for the vinyl plank flooring because it was within my budget. Would love wood flooring but I just can't afford it. The wood floors were a mess and I also had a large iron metal return vent where you see the plywood square. I wish I could have salvaged the wood floors but they were so damaged with nail holes, digs, cracks etc. This is my current vinyl plank flooring: I have to say that I do love my vinyl plank flooring. I also put vinyl plank type tile in my bathroom and even my best friend who likes the finer things in life, thought that the bathroom tile was marble. She had to take her shoe off to feel the floor LOL. As far as tile, I had ceramic tile flooring in my bathroom prior to remodeling and I ended up with 3 cracked tiles from dropping stuff (I am clumsy), so that is why I opted for the LVF. The cabinet company sent me some computer images of what it would look like in grey. I do not like the countertop. Also, I want the cabinets to go to the ceiling with crown at the top. My ceiling are an off size. Right now they are 8'9". I want the ceilings tore out so that I can have recessed lighting installed so the top will changing depending on how far down they come with the ceiling after tear out. Thank you all very much, any suggestions and/or comments are appreciated as I am all over the place right now.