I quit coloring my hair over a year ago but 'touch up' a too obivious gray streak that developed when I was 18. I have a nice hair color, I don't know why I started coloring it in the first place (Someone probably dared me to do it) (Spell pedicure correctly 3 times: pedicure, Pedicure, PEDICURE!) I enjoy the maintenance when I have the time, maybe I'll have more time to pamper myself when all the boys are away at college next fall. I am upping my sunscreen protection and slowing replacing my makeup with products that include it. I can't think of anything I do every month on schedule anymore. When I colored my hair, I would call it "Mom,s Spa Night' While my hair was morphing, I would give myself a facial mask, use the epilady places where I needed to, and soak my nails for a manicure (no polish) Sometime I think just staying clean and trying not to sweat is a major beauty accomplishment for me. When I went through my "big hair' stage back in the 80's, keeping up a perm with bangs was tough. If anything, I'll apply just mascara and moisturiser for a day around the house. Cupajoe, I wonder if I had that kind of money in highschool, if I wouldn't have done the same thing. I was a narcissus little thing back then...had to keep the package looking good...

No, the door isn't 7 1/4" deep! The "case depth" (without doors) is 24", the depth with the doors is 28" and 31" is the depth with the deepest part of the handles included. My cabinets are the same depth as the case, so that just the doors stick out. The fact that the handles apparently stick out 3 more inches really isn't noticeable.

grlwprls, unfortunately today I got a sample of bianco antico granite today, which is taupe and white. same flooring dilemma as the antique pearl..trying to find a floor "cool" enough for the taupe. And of course brass doesn't look good with it and of course it isn't a calm countertop and of course you need a relatively dark floor to counterbalance all that white which I want to avoid. I am just drawn to taupe. I have some flooring samples and I don't know if they are cool enough to look good with the countertop. I don't really want to deal with sealing or stone cleaners or problems like chipping or staining, so I will probably go with quartz. I think I want the brass to stay polished and bright. I considered a brass hood but eliminated that due to too much polishing. The mission statement would be: the kitchen will have classic elements including classic colors that are calm which I won't become tired of looking at and the surfaces will be hardworking and as low maintenance as possible. I think low maintenance surfaces means light floors and light countertops. But I am concerned that the room will look washed out if I put a light floor and counter. And I don't want to go dark with the floor because they are higher maintenance. Tonight I am thinking that a blackish countertop and neutral brown floor are very classic and will balance all the white everywhere else. But for black, I am unsure that a blackish counter will look good with a light floor. And I am concerned that a blackish counter will make the room look smaller and darker.

Suezbell, In the first half of the day there’s actually a good amount of light, we just block much of it out. It’s not a basement room, it’s directly off our kitchen (2 steps down). We are set on painting the entire main level greige so that’s not changing. The accent wall will be a *dark* blue, teal, or green (dark as the in LRV of 20) so I if we do the ceiling dark we’d probably just extend that to the ceiling. The flooring will be a LV rigid plank from Flooret (stock photo attached for color).