We have the PB Logan in black and love it. The quality has been just fine actually. I was a bit worried but at the time, we really had no other option. We had just bought our 55" TV (or should I say DH's 55" TV. LOL!) three weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit and bought just a console for the bottom which arrived a week before the storm hit. Thank goodness. We came back to find that we'd had about 22" of water. That piece that came a week before the storm saved the new TV! Well, we had to refurnish our whole house and I decided I wanted more storage and a bigger piece. I looked at every furniture store in New Orleans for something to house a 55" TV. Everything (at the time) was made for a 50" TV but stopped just short of the dimensions of our TV. But the PB Logan fit the bill. We love it. It's a very nice piece. It's sturdy and has yet to get a scratch or anything on it and we do rotate our TV a bit sometimes. Hope that helps a bit!

I don't have a room in my house large enough to accomodate these large entertainment centers, but if I did, I would grab them up in a heartbeat, even if I had to redo/add-to the shelving. If I had huge rooms here is what I would do: *Mudroom storage for gloves, coats, shoes, boots, sports equipment, cleaning supplies, etc. *Freestanding pantry *Clothing storage in bedroom *Linen storage/closet *Playroom storage if I had kids at home *Pretty garage storage *Potting shed for garage *Pretty basement storage *Craftroom/sewing organization Again these idea only work with the proper space (which I don't have) but many folks have more room than they know what to do with and are looking for the elusive organization ideas. Some of these are pretty in their original finish, but since most are practically being given away, what a great opportunity to get creative with different paint and faux finish ideas. Sigh! Sure would love to have the space.

Camlan and jmc01 -- excellent idea, to assess the need first. I had made a list of what space I'd need for what items a few months ago when I was doing the same for the kitchen, but it was mostly off the cuff instead of actually looking through drawers to see what needs to stay and what can go. I have been avoiding the purge-and-consolidate process. Blah. lol. Last night I started emptying out drawers to see how much space we'll need for the things in them (in addition to the things that have no home). We already have a desk, it's very old and it is enormous -- too deep, as we lose things in the backs of the drawers and never see them again. We also have an antique wooden file cabinet (also full of stuff). I don't think we'll keep either one; I like their looks OK but they just don't meet our needs now. The file cabinet drawers don't slide very easily. You know how it is with antiques sometimes. About custom work -- we are in an urban area, and the last time we had a cabinet quote from a carpenter (for a bathroom) it was very high. But that was many years ago and things may well have changed, so I will definitely keep it in mind, thanks! Camlan -- that is a very good point and I agree with you. What we need is a place to put the "action" items other than the middle of the kitchen. The desk (surface covered by books and toys at the moment) is not in the main walk path of the house, though it is near it. The kitchen peninsula is for all intents and purposes not part of the kitchen at all; it is nowhere near the prep/cook areas and functionally it is more a part of the den. It IS right in the main walk path, so we tend to drop things there. I am planning to do a (hopefully not too major) kitchen rearrangement when we replace our chipped countertops. One of the things I would like to do is to get rid of the peninsula entirely. That should help force a change of habit. And you are quite right that things like mail and library books don't need to be stored (I'd forget them too, if I couldn't see them) -- those are things that I envision going into either cubbies or open shelves or vertical slots. Just not flat down in stacks right in the way of everything. And some of the stuff on the peninsula HAS no place, mostly childrens' things. The house was decently well organized when there were just two of us in it. lol. (DH once looked at the stacks, then at me and said "But your house before we got married was so neat. What happened?" lol. I told him that I can deal with MY stuff just fine; it's handling 4 people's stuff that gets overwhelming, especially when there is no designated area for it. I might have also mentioned offhand that I am not the only one capable of putting away [somewhere] the kids' things.) Anyway. My car, at least, is still neat as a pin. Forhgtv -- I never in a million years would have thought of a closet company. I looked up a local one and what do you know, they have pictures of this kind of thing on their website. And they're near our house too, so at some point I will run over and check them out. Thanks for the suggestion! Hmm, reading over all this makes me think we need to rethink the storage-ability in the kids' rooms too. Great. Need new kitchen countertop, therefore must reconfigure children's closets. The usual logical progression of remodeling.

I don't have a functioning camera right now to make an electronic photo file, but will remark that it is easiest inside a nice cabinet to use combinations of pex tubing and push to connect fittings such as Sharkbite brand (among many others) to avoid sweat soldering damage. All that is needed is a means to cut the pex to a clean flat end. Mistakes are easily remedied by using a different size piece of pex. Adapters exist to go from the pex to the fitting that dangling faucet hoses use. 3/8 poly line along with John Guest type push to connect fittings will be good for RO lines or such. Pex and poly are at their limit when used for pressurized water at boiling temperatures, so the hot water source in the house needs to be under some form of temperature control. A boiler type of water heater with potential for overshoot to 220 or so would be a risk in my view without a working moderator (required anyway by code). Some water chemistries tend to degrade the modulator so that needs to be kept in mind. My primary sink cabinet base includes garbage disposal and DWV plumbing, stand pipe for dishwasher hose, hot/cold feed for main faucet and to moderating valve for dishwasher (gets mix of hot and cold). Also there is the touch faucet control box, the fiber-optic garbage disposal control box, and quad electrical outlet. RO connection to both hot and cold sides of a pull-down faucet are present. All of the plumbing is mounted on stand-offs on the back or side walls of the cabinet base. kas