These are wonderful! I'm embarrassed to say I had only been searching ON Gardenweb's site for kitchens, it hadn't occurred to me to use Google (I feel like a dunce)... Mpagmom your link had kitchens that I hadn't seen but are also beautiful and great inspiration, so thank you! I'm working on my layout and will post it soon, I'm so looking forward to getting opinions and suggestions from all the knowledgeable people here!

a few things, like texturing and painting, before it's completed?

Curious, if you ever posted pictures of your final kitchen. Saw bits and pieces when you posted about cabinet/range hood problems. Looked like it was going to be a nice kitchen.

Bellsmom, Thank you for your courteous concern about not posting too many images in one thread. It is a problem for people, like me, with slow connection speeds. The way it works (here on GW) with a slower connection is that the whole thread must load before any part of it can be seen. Even then, after a certain amount of imagery has been rec'd, all additional images and text appear as boxes with x's in them. If one has the patience and determination to see them all, then repeated refreshes will gradually bring out all the images, but at the cost of the time need to download the whole thread repeatedly. I appreciate you making the effort to lighten the images, as well. Very few people take the trouble to do so, but it really helps. I haven't tried your other thread, yet. As a rule when I see a thread which advertises lots of pics, I skip it. There is one that's been poking around for awhile (the one that has fnished kitchen pics and "beer, too"). That one is so image-heavy I have never been able to get it open! Rural life has many advantages, but fast internet connection speed is not one of them. L.