thanks for the advice. The problem is that the tile has to co-ordinate with 3 baths and a kitchen. The kitchen has light grey concrete counters and white cabs., so I think a dark grey would work in all rooms. The problem is that both showers have a step up made of the casa del casa tile so the tiles would butt up against each other. The other thing I could do is I could afford to do the casa del casa each of the two baths to match the showers and then do grey in the half bath and kitchen. Would 2 baths with showers (upstairs) matching floor tiles (one grey/brown and one beige) and one bath and kitchen (downstairs) with matching tile look all right in a house with wood floors? The two baths are separated in different "wings" of the house, completely sepatate. That is four floor types...

homeagain, love the look of your kitchen, although I'm too safe a person to do something like that for myself. I looked at a color that was Autumn Spice, and I loved it, but didn't work with the color of the wood flooring I chose. The AS was a little too orangey for the warm brown color of the floor, and the stain cabs I chose are definitely a good match with the floor. Looking at my notes we ended up with cabs called Radford Saddle & Radford Autumn, both have a slight arch (etched) on the top of the door. I wish they'd picked the rope or braiding, those are my dream cabs! Mix with a few glass doors (which I still have no clue about) and I'm set with my kitchen lol From what I remember, it wasn't orangy.. now I'll have to see if I took pics of the choice we made when we changed it. Are you as excited about your new house as I am? I'm excited but it hard to get really excited. Once we move, I think things will be easier for me. I hate being unsure if we'll qualify for the mortgage with him out of work but am pretty sure that they won't sell our house out from under us and he will be working very soon.. so it may set us back 2 months. I didn't want the complete kitchen in the cream/glaze cabs cause I thought it would be too much, although the only upper cabs are on the side where the stove/ovens are. The bank of cabs on the outside wall have upper cabs though. I also thought with the floor being a dark wood stain, all stained cabs would make the kitchen too dark and dreary. The kitchen in my condo was never bright, so I guess i'm trying to make up for the lost light I never had. LOL I added glass to the upper stained cabs, so that will also add some brightness. I can't wait to see pics of it! Our kitchen will be in the back of the house, a window over the sink (IIRC) with a French door to the left of the cabs, so hopefully ours won't have a light problem.

Oh, Marcolo, that picture makes me laugh because I had been teasing DH that our daughter's play kitchen would be a perfect color scheme for a 1940's house. He just gave me that look. I know exactly what you mean by putting in the wrong decade and I agree with you for the most part, but then our neighborhood houses' original finishes were I think closer to the '30's than the '40's (maybe the builder was using up stuff left over from before the war) -- though I don't really know. All the kitchens I've seen on the street have been redone, or at least repainted, at some point in between and the new ones all look very much like 2000-2010 kitchens. Granite as far as the eye can see. Christine and mama_goose, thank you for the input! I've looked at Barker Door and I will check out DoorStop too. I will have to go sniff some Cabinet Coat and see if it would work for the resp-sensitive family members. Unfortunately (or not), we don't have a garage or other separate enclosed space for painting. Mama_goose, I remember your kitchen and it is just charming. I love how you have made it all your own. I believe our house's original cabinets were much like yours except with slab doors, from what DH tells me (he was the one who replaced them with frameless melamine in the late 80's).

"naff" is somewhere between tacky and cutesy. Putting seasonal outfits on the goose garden sculpture on the front porch would be naff. In the last couple of years, I have taught a Cierra, a Deja (whose last name rhymed with Vu), a Jevon, two Skylars, one a girl, and one, with an "er", a boy; two Gages and a Sage, all boys; a Meea, a Tory (boy) and Tori (girl), a Destiny and a Lorelai. Taylors, Tylers, Jordans and Morgans of both genders. My DD is Jillian, often mispelled Julian-for instance, on her letter reminding her she must register for the draft. Speaking of teenagers naming babies- Both my children were required in 9th grade to take "Family and Consumer Science" and one of the units was parenting-and they each brought home the "Think-it-Over" baby doll as a required project. They pick up the doll after school and have the "parent wristband" attached-and you can not take the wristband off-it is removed the next morning at school. This doll is programmed to cry at frequent intervals all night, and the student must figure out what the baby wants-rocking, feeding or changing-place the wristband plug in the baby plug, and start doing whatever it takes to make it stop crying-within 3 minutes. This is all recorded on a computer chip in its little plastic head. I repeat, this goes on all night long. Daughter brought hers home, did the project, returned it-no name, no "how cute"...whatever. Do it, get an A, move on. My son went to pick up his baby and was asked by his teacher if his parents would object to a baby that did not match him ethnically-she told me later he stared at her and said "it's a doll. Why would they care?" and off he and baby went to volleyball practice. (There were 4 of the babies at practice that night-apparently it was riotous and non-stop crying!) He named his J-Qwan and at 2 a.m. the crying woke me up (did I mention that it cries all night long?) I heard him shouting from the bathroom "I'm coming J-Qwan-can't a father even p**?" LOL! His teacher told me later that she had received a blistering phone call from a father whose daughter had come home with a baby that didn't match her ethnically, so she was told to always ask. For pete sake!