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Thank you all for your help! I will defenitely go to Home Depot to try and get that dwarf tree. I agree it makes sense to have it all set for me, with the soil, fertilizer, etc. I cant wait to start. I used to have a wonderful veggie garden about 20 yrs ago! Im 45 now. Since then, I have not had a back yard. I have had really nice house plants though. I think this is a great forum, and you guys sound really supportive and kind here. OH, to the nice guy from Montreal, we almost got there last year, but my daughter was sick and we ended up staying in the Canadian town in ths suburbs just before the bridges to Montreal. We stayed in a Best Western, and never made it there. My boyfriend is Canadian, and haha met him on a Beatle site about 7 yrs ago! He is from Vancouver, Victoria, and Edmonton. I love Canada!Well, I love to go to the Botanic Gardens in Brooklyn Ny and love to go for the Japanese Festival, so that will perk me up too! Ill keep you posted on my tree! I wish you all well! Thanks, Mary

Summerfield, So sorry it took so long to get back to you but we had a lovely power outage this morning so things came to a big halt. I wanted to wait til hubby could be with me so we can look at this together. Yes, you are right - the French Doors should be at the Living Room leading to the bedroom. We forgot that wall is a shear/bearing wall. Sorry for that mix-up. KITCHEN How big is the island? What do you think about moving the prep sink to other end of island? I debated whether to just make my cooktop a range so I can get more space on the left side of my main sink...but my back issues still remain. I went round & round over freezer access in the kitchen but with my idea below - that may be addressed. Why don't we go back to the original L-shaped part of the kitchen (leaving your island in) & put the kitchen freezer elsewhere close by. IDEA: Put kitchen freezer in entry to control center. Recess freezer as far into the vestibule as possible & whatever space is left over,make into storage. Would that be possible? Hubby's words for it: For door directly above entry that leads to vestibule, show door swing to the left against east wall of vestibule. Move west wall of vestibule which is opposite that door to the east to make room for the installation of the present kitchen freezer in what is in the foyer that leads to the control center. (The deck arctic entry will rarely be used by anyone else other than us so it doesn't have to be accommodating so much to gear as the carport entry does.) CONTROL CENTER Could we remove the door from the kitchen entry area into the control center & makea pocket door where the dotted line is between the two cabinets? This would also give me easy access to the kitchen freezer. BATH You are right...please put back pocket door in bathroom :) UTILITY AREA IN BATH Put transom window in bathroom above linen closet. We've decided to heat the main floor with in-floor radiant heating utilizing a boiler-driven thermal system that will be located in the utility room adjacent to the bathroom. Enclose utility area by extending wall that borders rod & shelves to the east ending south of west wall of linen closet. Install wall between west side of linen closet & utility area. Install pocket door opposite what is now the heater. (This also removes the window above the bathroom heater). Within the utility room will be located a direct vent Bedaris boiler about the size of the water heater shown in your latest rendering. Also we will retain the existing water heater shown in the rendering. (Toyo-Tomi fuel oil demand). We have be able to put the surge tank along that utility wall but we'll field fit that as we go. OUTSIDE DIMENSIONS I think I see what I did with the dimensions. I looked at my original and see I put 20 x 16 for the Living Room. I should have put 16 x 20. It's 16' from south to north. I looked at hubby's original graph paper & the outside dimensions for the living area are 32' north to south (living room & bedroom) and the deck adds 12' which brings it to 44'. So sorry for the mix-up. Office heat source: We are going with in-floor radiant heating. I am so sorry for all these changes...we really appreciate all your kind help. You've made our plans so much more useable - thank you!!! melaska

Thanks Katz! Wow... sounds like you are in a houseful of chaos. Congratulations! It must be a wonderful feeling being able to "move in." I can't wait! I sent you an email to whatever email address is linked here at gardenweb. One of the questions I had was in regards to the Provenza Old World Collection. That is the flooring we are thinking about. We noticed that the tung oil finish is much rougher than the urethane finishes. Have you noticed that it is more difficult to clean? We are also going to have fur babies on this floor (one of the nice things about that tung oil finish, - quick removal of scratches!), and was wondering about the fur clean up issues. I have heard that those with urethane finishes initially can't believe how much fur "floats" around, especially if they had carpet before. Now I am curious about this rougher finish. Will the fur cling to it? Is it tough to clean? I am thrilled to hear about your experience with this floor and wish you well as your finish your home. Thanks again! :)