Thanks! It is very helpful to know a 6" wide pull looks good on a 36" drawer. Thanks for the link to Richelieu -- looks like they have a lot of cool styles. Since the faces of my top drawers are 5" high, I think I will put the handles in the middle of the top drawers, and then 2.5" down from the tops of the taller drawers.

Sorry Tuesday, I didn't see your questions on the original post. The boxes were painted and I had new doors made. My brother in law, who is a carpenter made the doors and painted them for me with the same paint used on the boxes. The interiors were not painted, I left them original since i wasn't using any glass doors. This little remodel has made my life in there so much easier! It's so much more efficent and easy to work in there even tho it's the same space! Life doesn't have to be difficult! : )

hi, i'm here. just so busy trying to send two kids off to camp, figure out a way to get the GC to finish the house (without resorting to physical threats) AND sort through six years of stuff and move from the temporary house. i just found my crystal and china so had to wash everything and figure out where it goes in the new place. the good news: i found a miracle doc who has put me on BHRT and i am now better able to handle all the stress this mess has caused. i seriously feel GREAT. so hopefully i can answer all of your questions. the easy one first: my ceilings are 9' tall. the island, FYI is 10'x6'. it's hard to reach the center to clean so i'm wishing i didn't spec it as deep, but c'est la vie. it is what it is and i still believe i needed the size to fill the space. another aside: you can't see it in the layout, but my turbo chef oven is located under counter in the island directly across from dishwasher #2, facing the windows. note: the walk from the range to the refrigerator is 8-10 steps, depending if i'm standing right or left. it's definitely closer than it appears in the drawing. it's a large space but i the zones makes it work nicely. this is a general layout of the kitchen. the dimensions are 22' wide x 17.5' (i think) deep. the breakfast room is off to the right and is 14' square, with a porch right outside for outdoor dining. formal dining room across the hall, other side of fridge/freezer wall. this is the fridge/freezer wall. the center panels open up to reveal toaster oven, microwave (coming soon), coffee maker. also kept here will be cereal, bread, etc, ...your basic breakfast items, plus pop corn, et al. silverware is out and scattered waiting for the cabinet maker to come back and install drawer inserts. fridge is shown open on the left, freezer is on the right. here is it is in the closed, and open positions: i'm not finished setting this up yet but to get a better idea of my zones, this is the baking cabinet. it houses -or will house my mixers, food processor, etc.; bowels, condiments, baking pans and all things baking will reside in the four drawers below. they're not set up yet so sorry no pics. the baking sheets will live in a base cabinet just to the right. some of the shots are old, but i will update when i give my reveal -hopefully sometime within the next four years. interesting to note: i was not menopausal when we started this project, september 29, 2009. i guess it finally through me over the edge.

The cabinets are too short...s/he needs to either add 1/8" to them to make them taller or do something like we did to fill the "gap" b/w the bottom of the window & the top of the cabinets + counter. titan7...One thing...while granite/stone slabs are stated to be 2cm or 3cm thick...actual thickness will vary. So you might consider waiting until everything is installed, you might be OK. Of course, then it's too late to shim the cabinets... Your decision! :-\