Emy315, I love the kitchen cabinets and especially your beautiful crown molding. I feel the rest of your house must be beautiful with your good taste and that gorgeous crown molding being the same. I love the Porcelain tile and your counters. I like the two tone look with the Island darker. I love your high ceiling and how big and open your kitchen is. Your appliances are beautiful, your kitchen lights are perfect for the kitchen and that table and chairs really ties in with the island. Thank you for sharing you beautiful kitchen.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far --pbrisjar, Thank you for the link...I posted on that thread! There are some nice tiles featured, I just love the thick beveled look of the WZ tile. --aliceinwonderland, DH also thinks we should just wait on the backsplash. I just know how things usually go in our house...if it's not done NOW, sometimes it doesn't get done! Everytime we save up money for a certain project, something comes up...so I'd love to have it done and included in the price of the house. --redroze, I have no idea what our floors are. It breaks my heart because I "ordered" Brazilian Teak (or Cumaru) from a hardwood supplier over the internet...and what we recieved doesn't look anything like it should. We're building long-distance and our GC says that the boxes were labeld Red Cumaru...and they started installation even though the wood didn't match any of the pictures I'd emailed them with the variation of color in the wood. The floors are pretty...I just hope that whatever they are will hold up well for us over the years.

Maybe this thread isn't a troll after all... it reminds me of a foreclosure I looked at a couple of winters ago. The place had the original 1938 kitchen sink and wall/base cabinets along that wall. They were nice ones with glass windows and a big, farmhouse sink. I say "had" because now the kitchen has a bunch of generic big box cabinets. The original solid doors were replaced too, to put in hollow core prehung doors - I saw them at Habitat so the kitchen may have also made its was there as well. And of course... now they're having trouble selling it. This post was edited by schicksal on Thu, Apr 24, 14 at 8:33

This was last night: I'm soooo tired of arguing with my BIL GC. I have to keep reminding myself we saved $2k by using him and I will only need a fraction of that $ to fix some of his hacks. You see that light wire coming off the center of the cab above the sink? That should have been drilled on either end of the cab not the center. I'm hoping this will not be visible when the valance goes over the sink. Our original plan called for a 5" panel to bring the cabs to the ceiling with a very plain crown molding like this: I knew it would be plain and I also knew I could add onto it if I didn't like it - no problemo at all. Just buy it and tack it up there. Easy-peasy add-on. I ordered trim for the bottom of the uppers to hide the LED lightbars and created a more finished look that looks a lot like this: I ordered a valance to go over the sink, like this: I planned double pulls for the larger drawers since my pulls are on the small side and I wanted everything uniform, like this: BIL and DH just called me at work. They think the bottom trim should be added to the crown. They want to leave off the sink valance since "We don't need it" even though its MY plan AND he drilled centered instead of side for the light wire. They think the larger drawers should have a single cenetered pull. You see the theme here? My plans are harder than what they are trying to convince me will "look better." It's harder to drill more pull holes. It's harder to install a valance and line it up in the front so the don't steal the space for my lightbars and wine glass racks. It's harder to install finished bottoms than throw that trim on the crown. I have sooo much to catch up on since I've been running home to make contingency decisions all week. I'm so fed up I want to hop on a place to Vegas and just sit by a pool and drink fruity rum drinks.