Actually, the home accident was a small 3 drawer dresser that tipped onto him when he tried to climb it. Yes, bolt the dresser to the wall, and everything else in your house. I didn't even notice the dresser till after I posted the message b/c it wasn't in the first shot. Like I said you can never be too careful when it comes to these precious little babies.

The whole house has oak hardwood floors, and my neighbor 3 houses down has the exact kitchen layout and she had hardwood floors, so it was a good guess that I would find them there, although it was like looking for treasure HOPING they be there when I pulled up the flooring. My granite is Atlantic Black. I just tried looking up the backsplash for you guys and IT IS considered a MARBLE!!! Oh wow! Another surprise for me! I just thought it was a natural stone!! It's called Mugla White Tumbled Marble by Carena. Definition: Mugla White is a white Marble from Turkey. In natural stone trade, Mugla White is often simply called a Marble. Bonus!!! I can't wait to tell my husband when he gets home from work! We've been telling everyone it wasn't marble! :D I used a light grey color for grout. The cabinets are Norcraft. Sorry for the bad photos. I took the photos at night. I couldn't wait until the daytime. :D

As a kitchen designer and the owner of my kitchen and bath store in Orlando I do not see how the store can call your complaint imagined. I am amazed that other people who have comented on your post as "KD's" have used the terminoligy of a filler when they should know you do not use a filler on the blind corner cabinet that has your drawer. It is supposed to be installed away from the wall the dishwasher backs to so the drawer is far enough away from the dishwasher to open. The fact that the countertop was cut before the problem was realized has nothing to do with the countertop. The blind corner cabinets are built to be flexible in how far you "pull" it from the wall of the dishwasher. The conversation should have been to the effect of the cabinet was not pulled away from the dishwasher wall for what ever reason. Now that this is recognized a decision has to be made as to what will be done to solve this problem. Your design would have been different before the order to allow the drawer to open. The countertop of the section the blind corner cabinet would have been appox 1.5-3" longer to allow the blind corner cabinet to be "pulled" from the wall or something to the left of the blind corner cabinet would need to be 1.5-3" smaller to allow the blind corner cabinet to be installed with proper clearance. At that moment a decision should have been made to decide what needed to be changed recognizing the entire length of the counter is not to change size. What should have occured is admiting a new cabinet to the left of the blind corner cabinet 3" smaller was needed and should have been ordered. Your kitchen put on hold and installed properly. In my opinion that would have been more expensive then your dishwasher based on the price you paid for you kitchen. I just priced a kitchen out that is larger then yours and gave the customers prices of american made cabinets of $2,800 to $3,500 for cabinets. (They asked for the least expensive cabinets possible) The blind corner cabinet would have to be made again to do the job right because the filler between it and the dishwasher has put holes in the wood stile it is attached to in the blind corner cabinet. When you slide that blind corner cabinet over to its left 1.5-3" you would be up set of the the holes needing to be filled from the screws attaching the filler to it on the left side of the dishwasher. If you have itemized prices for the cabinets find the cost of the blind corner and a cabinet to its left and you would see the retail cost to replace them is probably higher then the price of the dishwasher. The warranty for the cabinets is issued by the manufacturer normally. Paperwork from the dealer may be required to be submitted to "register the purchase" just like you have to do when you buy a new product that is computer related. You should be able to circumvent that with a complaint to the manufacturer. It seems to me the dealer for this cabinet brands feels they can strong arm you. I would not see it that way if I was in your shoes. The designer of the cabinet layout forgot to pull the cabinet away from the wall enough to work in your design. I have done that myself once in my carrer. Complain to the better business bureau (sp?) if they do not all ready have a F rating. If they do then your complaint will not change the perception of future customers that they do not stand behind their business when something goes wrong. The BBB does not side with every customer. The purpose of the rating is to show the the business will work to solve problems instead of leave you in the dark. If the rating is already F then you know they are not concerned about it and another complaint will not have the ability to pressure them. Call the number to the cabinet maker and talk to them and ask them if a dealer is able to deny warrantys We all know the reasonable answer but here it from the horses mouth. I see you as lucky a different dishwasher makes things work. There would have been a cost to the dealer to fix the problem with 2 new cabinets as well. Assuming you can get the warranty I would not pay the final bill and just be happy to be done and realize you picked a company that you have learned to be dishonest and move on with life.

Hi Scrappy25, I'm not sure how tall the soffits were but they seemed huge! We took down two soffits. One soffit was in a wall that we took out (now it's an archway and a peninsula). What you see now is just trim - we just ordered some stuff and played around with what would look best above the cabinetry. I definitely knew I wanted top of the molding to match the rest of the house, so the carpenter recreated the original molding for the new space - we just needed to fill a small gap (since the cabinets were semi but not custom),so that's when we played around with other molding pieces. The space between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling is nothing compared to the soffits that were there before. The house is 1940 - so nothing is even. So everything was a challenge! However, we had to leave the soffit above the sink - I just had the carpenter make the soffit itself smaller - then we added trim over the soffit above the sink. That's why the two walls look different if you're really staring at them. But most people come to the house and just love the overall kitchen. I'm really happy with how it turned out - we did the best we could with what we had, under a certain budget. It's always a game of give-and-take! The hood - I believe it's the AK2500S Zephyr Power Series Hurricane 30" Under Cabinet Hood. God luck, and happy kitchen planning!