I didn't make the index card cabinet you see there. I made this one though. What is cool about mine, is that it came from Gallaudette university and I'm an interpreter for the deaf. That is the main deaf university in the US. Here is a link that might be useful:

Cindee, The five resort I worked for in North Carolina uses Mission furniture. They also have a expo each year. People come from all over the world. Tropicalfreak

does priscilla sing while she works .. or just whistle.. lol ... take your pix as large as you can ...then when you upload.. look for the little box.. and let photobucket upload them AND resize them ... i tend toward the 17 inch size on closeups... but i suppose 15 would be ok .. now.. as a man ... there are just to many words.. and too many thoughts to comprehend it all .. i know its a guy thing .... so i will just adjust the trifocals.. and hope i can see your minuscule pic ... and address the 9000 word stream of girlie consciousness you have typed ... rotflmbo ... ok.. wow .. so many words... lancifolia in front of the rocks ... ought to take snow plowing [driving over.. salt].. and fill in nicely.. though you may have to elevate the rocks in a few years ... #2 .. do you not know the tape trick??? on recent transplants??? no clue on what hosta it stick in there .. maybe a bigger wider look at it all might inspire me .... #3 hmmm gnome home huh???? #4 man.. or girl.. you are a worker bee this weekend .... i dont know what the plastic under the cement did for you ... i wouldnt have wasted the money on it .... what inda weeds do you have that come through cement???? and i dont know what i would do with 6 to 8 inches ... of space .... what i do like in all the pix. ... is the apparent lack of any grass .. lol ... you have plenty of time in the years to come.. to fill in all the spots you have just created ..... NEVER think you have to do it all in one weekend ... enjoy the results of your hard work .... and relax... the muses will strike when they are darn well ready .. august is a great time to start planning all kinds of new beds.. FOR NEXT YEAR ... no one said they all have to be planted .. as soon as they are made ... hoik a cold one of your choice .. and revel in your success.. forget about finishing it all.. as technically .... a garden is never finished.. dream away .. ken ps: have no insight into the quandary you mentioned previously ... still ruminating on it all ....

No I did not remove the tile except around the sink to remove the old sink. I built forms from wood but the wood on the front was removed after the concrete set for a couple hours and the wood underneath removed the next day. Here is a photo of the concrete in the pass through window after I removed the front mold part. I left the wood underneath to support the overhang until the concrete reached near full strength the next day. You can see some leakage on the right I had to chisel away later. If you do this, I highly recommend caulking all the molds - I only did some areas because I thought I had screwed the soft wood tight enough but I was wrong, the resulting leaks caused all my problem areas. I should have caulked all the seams on the wood molds and I would not have had the problem. The counters still look great after months of use, BTW! here are some pics of the molds: Big mess caused by leak- made painting the cabinets later a lot more work to sand off all that gunk. The leaks also created air gaps in the mold area I couldn't see until the concrete was set, I later had to hand trowel a thick mixture on those areas to repair it. It will never look as smooth as the mold-formed areas. My plan for next spring is to tile the backsplash if budget allows - the beadboard wallpaper is serving its purpose for now but tile will look nicer.