I had Kraftmaid cabinets installed last week in Canvas (no glazes!)...I have not yet painted and the soapstone counter is not installed but even so I'm enjoying how the changing daylight works with the cabinets

Palimpsest, Thanks for clarifying the visual aspect. Using the same dimensions for moulding makes sense now. I'll have to take off the crown from the bookcases in order to get the new moulding to fit, but that's ok. I think I'll be okay with having medium dark poplar crown covering dark mahogany bookcases. But what do you think? My mock-up is equivocal insofar as covering the bookcases looks better than coping the new crown to meet the bookcase crowns. I won't replace the base moulding on the bookcases because of the current height and presence of airvents. You've been a great help. If you have any other comments or suggestions, please advise.

Even though we are not "really tall', I was 5-10 and wife 5-8, we did our counters at a higher than "Normal" installation. We did that in 2006 and we still love the "elevated counters". For one thing, since we went with an under counter oven , we were able to raise it up off the floor about 6 inches and this really makes accessing the oven much easier, we are both in our 70's. We have a Kohler double porcelain sink, one side has a large cavity and the other, (where the garbage disposal is) is smaller. We really like it and both sides drain very well, and always have. We always take care to run the garbage disposal long enough for what was in it and plenty of water too~~~we have never had a stopped up drain in the almost 40 years we've been in this house. Congratulations on yours and I'm glad everything worked out well, for you! Gary

Actually, by aperture I meant the opening at the bottom of the hood that intercepts the rising and expanding effluent. The hood may be a bit bigger than this aperture. I believe this meaning is also relevant to Greenheck's use of a 85 CFM/sq. ft. value for certain types of cooking. (Many commercial hoods have thin edges.) Schlieren photography of successful and unsuccessful capture arguably puts the specific flow rate into this range. In some cases where the hood has a flush bottom with mesh filters, some effluent won't be captured due to reflection unless an extreme air flow is achieved, and for such cases reasonableness suggests using the area of the meshes and their close surrounds rather than the entire hood area. It is also true that at an actual 90 CFM/sq. ft., there will be a modest zone of a couple of inches around the hood where passing plume effluent may be captured. Further, baffle designs vary somewhat, and different shaped approaches to the baffles can exist, particularly in commercial hoods. For my Wolf Pro Island hood, the baffle area (mapped onto a horizontal plane) is essentially equal to the inside area of the hood at the base. And just to make this more complex, the actual plumes have different velocities with angle, and with pan temperature, and with presence or lack thereof of hot combustion products. So, in some cases with a large hood providing good capture, less than 90 CFM/sq. ft. may be sufficient, perhaps as low as 60 if using induction, or if no wokking or searing is attempted. And then the value of 1.5X can be debated depending on duct characteristics, losses in baffles and hood, the blower's fan curve, and whether the MUA is pressurized so that the house pressure is very close to equaling the exterior pressure. And last, the calculation leading to 1000 CFM for the blower zero-static-pressure rating implies an actual flow rate given various pressure losses of 600 to 700 CFM, not a particularly extravagant value. So, my suggestion is intended to be an estimate that covers a lot of sins and uncertainties, and which should lead to few complaints about inadequacy. I will not be inspecting your system and handing out black marks for non-conformance, so feel free to juggle the trades between performance, aesthetics, and affordability. When composing a message here, one can do it in a text editor and paste it into the composition window; this might have merit if one has dropouts that cause loss of one's creative effort. Also, one can write in the window and edit to his heart's content, and even change his mind and remove the entire text, then drop the page without submitting. As we aren't allowed html, and extended character sets aren't certain to work, I'm unclear on what advantage results from previewing beyond that which occurs as we write.