Ah the difference between a real gallon and a trade gallon. A trade gallon for some reason is only 0.734 of a gallon. Unfortunately the percentage does not stay true to the 0.734 of a gallon as pot size increases. How this is legal is beyond me. One would think that weights and measures would have come down on this long ago. But alas its not a gallon is it? No its a trade gallon. Below is a company that actually lists the volume of the pots they sell. There really is no standardization. A company could list a 2 gallon pot and as long as it has more than 1 gallon and less than 3 gallons its OK to market it that way. I'm not recommending the company in the link. I have never purchased from them. They were just the first company I could find that listed the volume of all their containers which is why I provided the link. Here is a link that might be useful: Nursery Pots

Thanks, localeater! The thread I'm thinking of asked GWers to post their islands without seating and why they chose no seating - at least that's what I recall - but the two you found are also helpful. We have a 12" seating overhang on our island but we've never had stools there in the 19+ years we've lived in this house. Never had any burning need to have any - not even with my kids were little - nor have we felt that we were missing out either. When my kids were young and helped with cooking or baking, we simply pulled a kitchen chair up to the counter for them to stand on. That's what my mom did for my brother and me so you could say I'm following a family tradition. ;-) The kitchen table is only 43" away so there is nearby seating and with only 43" of clearance, we really don't have adequate aisles for back to back seating. So I've been planning to replace the seating overhang with cabinets (maybe I could gain enough storage to forgo upper cabinets on the cook top wall, which I'd love) but I've had many people tell me I'll regret not having a seating overhang and a realtor friend tell me that I definitely have enough room for island seating (take that with a grain of salt, she's not coming from a TKO perspective and doesn't know NKBA recs). So it has me wondering if maybe I don't know what I'm missing. But it could just as easily be that, as in many other things, I don't fit the norm and an island without seating is the way for us to go. Honestly, I think it's the latter. So I'm hoping to find threads where GWers have posted their reasons for and experiences with going the no-island-seating route.

Yes, those "Colors" threads are all in the Gallery section of the Home Decorating board here (created before the Paint board was born). Some of us try to keep them bumped up to the front page since so many refer to those photos, but the Gallery board is getting more traffic so you might have to scroll back a page or two to find any additional 'Colors' threads you might want to see. There are quite a few of them. ;)

Was it this one? Here is a link that might be useful: Ventilation help