I think you're stressing over nothing. I'm sure it will look gorgeous when it's done. I do know what you're going through as I'm going through a full condo redo now and I know how it feels to have to say, "it will be good enough." And guess what? It will!

Well *I* think they'll look perfect. The upper doors have all the great rail details and having extra doors below will go right along with it.

But the dishwasher...has that panel been ordered? If you could do THAT in double doors stuck together, it would be really perfect.

What you should do is get the price of having what you want. If it's too much, put an extra can of paint in storage and plan on changing later if it looks bad. (I think it will not look bad!)

cpartist - thank you. I'm sad. Waaaa! :( I've already been having to say "it will look good enough" 3x now. Once, because the sink can't stick out due to the wall faucet not reaching far enough, and twice because my contractor misjudged when measuring the dishwasher/ordering the door (he thought the dishwasher was shorter so the door was ordered too tall and he had to make the upper facing skinnier in that spot accommodate it, sigh...) and the third time, the faucet wasn't level. I asked my contractor to see that it became level so he did minor tweaking until it became more level but now it's gone back a bit so is back to being not so level - and I've given up on it. Now I have to have this overly-busy looking wall of cabinets...and yet I can't have concealed hinges because they take up too much space inside the cabs when you have two doors and 4 huge hinges (concealed hinges aren't small inside the cab). So the lack of concealed hinges is really a 4th disappointment. Oh yes and a very old light switch can't be moved to be symmetrical with the others, and the one on the opposite wall I won't be consistent either. This is starting to feel like a circus! At least I called the electrician and asked him to redo the off-center hole he made for my future pendant light. There was a beam in the way so he made it off-center, instead of just installing a pancake box. Kill me now. I wonder if I'll get charged?

fori - thanks for the positive juju. As I was saying in the paragraph above this one, the panel for the dishwasher has been ordered and it's just a one-panel shaker style door w/ a Another reason I think they'd look better w/ one door is because the wall you see when you come in from the dining room is filled w/ wall to wall cabinets and they have big wide doors on them:

The cost of new doors would be a couple hundred plus painting (which I could do myself). As for the dishwasher door being made to look like double doors, I'm not so into the fake cabinet look (as I know so many are) cause the whole idea of not being able to open the doors kinda bugs me - "Oh...so I guess it's NOT a cupboard then...umm...okay...you tricked me..." Lol!

I really think that once everything is installed and painted it will all blend into "gorgeous white historic goodness" and your eye will naturally go to that lovely window you have over the sink. Right now, it looks choppy because you can see everything the doors are going to conceal. Stay the course, it is going to be fabulous.

BTW, I stressed over my single Shaker DW panel (it butts up to a row of drawers and I was worried it would not look "integrated enough") and once it was painted and installed it disappears. All those grey hairs for nothing...

Obviously this is an old house and old houses are supposed to have their quirks. :) I know about old houses; my first house was built in 1927 and the house I'm trying to sell now was built in 1898. As Laura said, once it's all painted and put together it will work just right.

Funny story regarding ceiling fixture holes for lighting. We bought a condo in Fl that we're renovating now. The DR ceiling fixture was centered on the center of the sliding doors to the patio. Only problem? It's not centered in the room because the room has another 18" past the doors, so if I were to center a table under the light, I would have no room on the only wall to put a storage unit. (It had to be a man who designed that as I know a woman would have realized the problem! Sorry guys...lol.) So I have to move the fixture but can't move the box (because ceilings are concrete) and have figured out a way finally to fudge the move so it won't be noticeable.

I would do double doors on the 2 end cabinets, and then have a single door made for the other panel next to the dish washer. You'd only have to pay to have 1 cabinet door changed, it would give you more the look that you want, it would be less busy and it would look nice b/c you'd have at least 1/2 the way you want it.

Double doors in the base cabinet make more sense, as they won't block the walking paths in this compact layout, as a wide single door would. I would have the dishwasher door made with two narrow panels and a center stile. Not pretending to be two doors, but simply one door with some detailing.

theresse,

Of course you are sad. This is frustrating. But truly
I think it is going to be okay. Have a glass of wine
tonight. I truly believe wine is a key in surviving
a kitchen reno.

(((((((((cyber hugs to get through this))))))))))))))
Thinking of you and knowing you will make this work.
~boxerpups

I"m not sure about this, but since those end cabinets are next to bump-outs I'd probably go with single doors. Else the door next to the bump-out will always be banging into it.