Ineffable, you can have the cultured marble shower floor made in a custom color that will go better with your other choices, but you have to find a local fabricator for that. I have had white Corian in two houses (bathrooms counters/sinks in one and kitchen counters in another) and would never have it again. IMO cultured marble is superior to Corian for bathrooms. Even in custom installations it is very reasonable. A local interior designer built a new house and used a light custom gray for the shower floor of her Carrara shower, and it looks great. And has had none of the problems her shower floor (all Carrara, including floor) had in her former home. I've just ordered new counters with integrated sinks for three of our baths and, literally, with every possible material available to me I am getting custom bonded (synthetic) marble for all three. Next year I may replace the granite in the other bathrooms I dislike so much with cultured marble as well! If the hallmark of a truly quality material is now long it lasts and how good it looks, cultured marble wins the prize as far as I'm concerned. The new counters I chose are matte finish and have a wonderful mix of flecks that are perfect for their settings. The one going downstairs in the basement bathroom is a solid custom color we came up with that will complement the brick and the barn red that vanity is to be painted. You can tell I'm a fan....the fabricators showroom near me has a gorgeous green color that looks so much like jadeite glass that I kept touching it. They created a up huge handicapped (roll in) access shower stall and the walls look like a forest--- there were brown color strokes (that looked like brush strokes) in tree trunk patterns .... Difficult to describe, but they can add color precisely and artistically, it is amazing.

My father lived his teenage years in a house without electricity or running water. (They had an electric generator), but we still have things from that house. I slept for a number of years on a brass bed that we pulled out of the mud after the legs had broken through the rotten floor of the house after it was abandoned and taken over by squirrels. I think this relative lack of things, and having to move a number of times in childhood is what has made him so attached to both his house, and the things he was able to put in it. He still says that he would rather move out in a box (die in the house) than move. It will be quite a process sorting and parceling out but I don't find it an onerous job, really. I think if something happened and it all evaporated tomorrow, that would be okay too, for us--not for him. But there really hasn't been any feeling that any of us "deserved" a particular item for a particular reason, and really we haven't even been interested in the same things. None of the bickering that one hears about. My parents educated us all (grandchildren included) and that is one very important legacy in itself, and I never felt like I needed or deserved more than that, (0r even that, really).

(3) Have you checked the Ticor sinks at Galaxy Tool Supply? They have many differently configured sinks in various sizes. Most of Ticor sinks are 16 gauge SS (15 gauge rims)...the smaller the gauge number the better. They are also very reasonably priced. Here is a link that might be useful: Galaxy Tool Supply (kitchen sinks)

For me, redoing the floor is not in the picture. I just don't have the budget for it. I also can't replace the cabinets even though I don't like them either; but maybe someday I can reface/redoor them. I hate all that 6" white tile. It's so.....white and dated. Since the countertops are the only thing I can do I'm trying to think of something. the floors really don't match the countertops as much as it looks like. the counter is pure white. the floor is an off-white with grey motelling(?) through it and blends into the tile floors throughout the rest of the house. and PS: please don't mind making negative comments - i asked because I wanted opinions.