You've got a great jump on everything especially considering you don't even have a contract yet! Waiting is difficult. Who has that much patience?

I assume you have cabs, hardware, and paint under control as well since you're so far ahead of the game. ;)

you are ahead of the game. So many decisions behind you and that's a good thing.

Hang in there, Andrea. It's going to be great.

Take your time with the GC. You'll want to make sure the contract has all the details you want in it.

Breezy - well, we're picking what we can, we've still got a lot of details to work out - our GC is also the cabinet maker...so, we know that we want cherry, Shaker style, dark stain, but the actual stain for the cabinetry is dependent upon the color that we do on our red oak hardwood when it's refinished and we are holding on our hardwood guy to get us colors until we know our start date with the GC. So, while waiting for all this, I went to HD and picked up some of their floor sample swatches and we came up with a color that we want to emulate for our floor and have been using it as our "close-enough" color.

We're working out our pulls - I know that we want pulls and not knobs, and I know that we want a transitional/contemporary look to those, so I don't have an exact pull, but we're close.

Paint, not under control AT ALL right now. And I'm amazingly relaxed about not knowing that. haha I don't expect to have that decided until the cabinets, granite, and lighting are in place. We're going neutral and lighter. Quite possibly a blue undertone, but not necessarily actually blue. Color in a room changes so much when you have everything in place and our room is changing significantly from what it is currently because we're tearing out a wall and removing a window - light is going to play quite differently once all that happens. So, I have a pile of swatches that I've put next to our bits & pieces of stuff and eliminated a lot and we have a few that we'll wind up getting samples of when it comes time to paint.

We've got our faucet, we've got our GD, but I have to purchase the air switch.

I need to work out details on plugmold - don't know if I should spring for the angled plugmold from Task or just go with the HD stuff.

And, oddly enough, even though I'm a photographer, kitchen lighting is just baffling me. I guess it's that I'm used to seeing light and modifying light - I guess it's really the electrical aspect of it that's confusing to me.

marti8a - thanks for the vote of confidence. We're happy about having so many of these decisions made...but now I just want to know when we can get started!

Ginny - Thank you! I haven't forgotten about you, I promise. I owe you an email. I've been doing a ton of looking and deciding about stuff. It can be seriously all-consuming - if only I didn't have work work to do also this would be so much easier! Sometimes I wish that I were one of those people who just said, "KD, please create a new kitchen for me." BTW, I'm so glad that you're hanging out here even though your kitchen is done. :)

debra - WE are getting everything ironed out in the contract as much as possible ahead of time. I poured through what he had and made all kinds of notations to send back over to him. He's probably going, "Oh, good grief, this woman has ALL these ideas!" haha

Andrea, no worries - I know how busy you are. I remember spending hours daily researching and deciding. I enjoy seeing your posts.

Make sure you want an air switch and not fiber optic. I got Waste King fiber optic, which was trickier to install in granite, but it has a sealed gasket so water can't go down it.

You're right to be picky about the GC agreement. I wish I'd had more details in mine.