I had a wonderful plant trade with Andrea...nice plants, nicely packaged and labeled. Great to communicate with too. Would definitely trade with Andrea again. Thank you again. Sue

Thanks Raven for the headsup and I agree. If people don't have it...they should have it! Bob

Lynn - I'll try to answer back from your prior post: "I really love the banquet seating you've got (and it looks like it will match our style). Did you build it? Buy it? Does it have storage built in?" * First, thank you for overlooking all the mess that is surrounding the reno! I hated to post that photo, but it was the only one I had handy showing the seating. Our cabinet maker built the banquette seating to our specs. It is completely custom sized. It butts up against where the cabinets end, runs to the corner of the room and then makes the L. The back was designed to have a slope back for comfort and it it a little shorter than we might have otherwise designed it due to the windows...you can see that the back goes to directly under the windows. The sill actually pretty much rests over the top of the seat back. The portion that you can see as you look straight on has three drawers. The furthest one back toward the corner will hold only things that I don't need to get to often since I will have to crawl under the table to get to it. The middle one will have some lesser used items as well, but more often needed than the left most one. And the 3rd one (closest to our cabinetry) will hold more often needed items. What you can't see for the seating that is closest to the left side is that there is one long drawer in there. It's 48" deep and has heavy duty glides on it. We could have gone a little deeper, but the cost for the glides began growing exponentially and it was really not worth it. The amount of storage this gave us is wonderful. And there are always things that you have for your kitchen that you use just a few times a year - this gives a place for them to live. "Right now, I only have 3 functional drawers in my kitchen, so I am looking forward to having more, but the types of things I store in my cabinets don't really store well in drawers. The bulk of my cabinet space is taken up by cookware, small appliances, food, and food storage containers. My husband refuses to have plastic, so all of our food containers are glass (and I'm not sure how well that will store in a drawer). I can see how a drawer might work for the cookware. How would you compare them against a cabinet with pull-out trays? " * My cookware, dishes, food storage containers (some glass, some plastic), pots, and pans are ALL in drawers. It works wonderfully. I have a few places for small appliances - one is an appliance garage located in one of our tall cabinets. Another is a Hafele LeMans unit that fits in our corner cabinet. And then finally, I have my KitchenAid mixer in it's own cabinet with a lift, there's a roll out under the lift that holds my hand mixer and a few baking supplies. The appliance garage holds my coffee pot, blender and toaster. The LeMans unit holds my iced tea maker, crockpot, vacuum sealer, and food processor. The attachments to the food processor are in a bottom drawer where I keep my food storage containers. When possible, use a drawer instead of doors with roll-outs/pull-outs. It's less steps to get to what you need. That said, I do have a pantry that has roll-outs and tall units that have rollouts in the top portions. For food storage, I think that it's harder to utilize drawers. The trick to drawers is that you need to decide what you are putting where before you ever purchase your cabinets. I made a preliminary layout and then after I had that, I created a plan for all of my stuff and adjusted cabinet sizes and drawers to suit what my needs were. It's a lot of leg work up front, but is well worth it in the end. "With regards to the drawer size, it seems like when they get too big I can't find good dividers for them, and then my utensils and stuff just end up in a big jumble. I am definitely open to suggestions on how to solve this (I'm really learning a lot from this community!!!)." * You just need dividers. Woodhollow that was mentioned just prior by Christina has had several good reports here. I'm looking into an acrylic solution right now for my drawers, but I haven't had first hand experience with any of the places I've found at this point, so I can't give feedback on that as a possibility. But for sure, a lot of people have been happy with Woodhollow.

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