Wow, that's really beautiful. Very eye-catching, and the color of the tiles over the stove look so nice with your cabinets. Great kitchen!

Oh so beautiful! Congrats!

Wow...that looks really nice! Congrats on finishing and enjoy!
vic

Glass subways just might be my overall favorite tile. Very, very nice effect!

I love the modern twist the glass adds to a traditional style, it's so lovely! Great kitchen, very warm and inviting! And the colors are perfect!

Yes, what Lukkiirish just said. :) It all really, really does work beautifully. Definitely worth waiting for.

Worth the wait. You did a beautiful job on your whole kitchen. Great colors and the sparkle of the glass makes it perfect.

It's so beautiful you must be thrilled. Love your lights too. Could you tell me where you got the ones over your island?

Your kitchen looks fantastic. I love how the shiny tiles seem to glow with warmth.

Superb! All of the your design details are marvelous. Is the brick wall real or tiled?

Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments. It did seem like a long wait, but I guess it was worth it.

Caminnc, the lights over the island are Porter Pendants from Pottery Barn. They still make them; I looked it up on their website just now. Jennabanenna (what a great name!), that is a brick veneer over a hearth original to our house, which was built in 1890. We wanted to keep the hearth in our design, but not use it for that purpose (there is a microwave and bookshelf for cookbooks in there). We didn't like the condition of the brick when we unearthed it -- it had been covered up by a wall of cabinets put in by the previous owners in the 1970s. So we covered it over with ThinBrick, a product made by the Robinson Co. that is real brick but thinner.

Hope this helps.

Looks great! You did a fabulous job choosing your backsplash: it just looks like it was meant to be!

Sandy

It's beautiful and coordinates perfectly with the other elements of your kitchen!

Thank you everyone. Glass tile is not the easiest material to work with, and several tilers refused to install it. But I thought it was well worth it, especially for the sparkle, as someone pointed out. Here are more photos. Thanks for looking!

Here is a link that might be useful: More hmsweethm kitchen photos

That is the warmest new kitchen that I've ever seen. Just beautiful.

Wow! It turned out great! I love the tile -- certainly worth waiting for.

Arlene

Your kitchen is absolutely hands down stunningly gorgeous! Congrats on beautiful choices. I just love it! So warm and inviting.

I don't know why but I just want to sit down at your island and have myself a big hot fudge sundae! Whipped cream, cherry and nuts. Yea, I must be nuts to think that but that is how it makes me feel. Warm, cozy, inviting and having one of my most favorite decadent things in the world.

You have a beautiful kitchen. How exiting for you. Congrats. How is it to cook in? Must be a dream.

Thanks, Mustbnuts. The kitchen is so much fun to cook in. Do we all feel this way? When we have new toys to play with in our kitchen -- new dishwasher, new bowls -- we just want to be in there more. Even our kids spend more time there. I love that they do their homework on the island or the table, which have enough room for them to spread out, if we keep the other mess in check. And it's fun that everyone feels comfortable cooking there. When we have parties, this is where everyone hangs out.

That is some stunning tile! Congrats, worth the wait, enjoy your new space.

As other posters have noticed, it is very warm and inviting! I remember your kitchen from a year ago- hope that you're right, and that there really is light at the end of the tunnel! Promise?

Raehelen, maybe some of us don't want to be finished because then we would have less of an excuse to drop in on GW! My husband thinks addicted. I'm proud to call myself TKO and I love this community!

We do have one tiny unfinished business: still trying to get our danged granite people to come out and make a hole for a dishwasher air switch. We've been asking for almost a year. ADVICE TO EVERYONE ON GRANITE: Make sure you know everything you're going to want on your counter (faucets, hot water thing-y, etc.) when you order your granite, cuz they ain't gonna come back for one little thing! We are learning this the hard way. We even tried this weekend to rent a drill to make the hole ourselves -- how hard can it be, we thought? But the rental place didn't have anything suitable. So we're back to groveling with the granite fabricator.