Hi Francy! I have had no problems with that shade and light...the only thing that bothers me about it is that I screwed up the calculations and it is not centered between the hood and the walll.. :(. My ceilings are 8 feet and I also have the open shade above the sink and honestly I never really look up at them to catch any glare. My rationale too was not to have too many different shades/styles. You can see that the fitter and canopy on my sink pendant match the small stove light. All my light shades have the black stripe but they did not offer the stripe on the one over the sink. Good luck and I would love to see pictures of your finished period kitchen! Tina

I am on my way to your page! I love your stories/memories. Takes me back to some of my own favorite memories of a different time. Thank you for sharing

Another wonderful look back in time, Seniorgal. I was reminded of my mother, who rose through the ranks at a Providence, RI department store to become personal assistant to the director of personnel. (She wouldn't even be hired today, with only a HS degree and a few college courses. This makes me think that today we are leaving capable people behind!) Are you enjoying the Masterpiece Theater presentation "Mr. Selfridge"? I see so many similarities between Selfridge's and Chicago's Marshall Field's -- where Selfridge began his career. I've yet to see the story include the overhead tubes through which capsules of cash from the customer went to the accounting office, with any 'change' immediately returned. Those fascinated me as a child.

Thank you sail_away. cpartist, Thanks for posting this here. Looks like a great plan, and I love the elevations. How long would you say the process was for you to get your plan fine-tuned to its final form? We gave a deposit the beginning of March 2015, I believe. We received our first floor plan 3/20/15 and the second one about 5 days later. We were still fine tuning this past December when I finally was able to say with confidence that it was fine. It took longer than usual because I'd send the draftsman my changes drawn out and he'd come back with something of his own doing. For example, once I enclosed the loft area and turned it into my guest bedroom, I drew three windows for the front guest bedroom. The draftsman drew two windows twice as long as what I had drawn. When I questioned the builder, he said the draftsman said that because I had turned the area into a bedroom it needed an egress window. Well the draftsman had the closet going across the whole back wall in the guest bedroom. I took one look and said, why not cut the dang closet in half and put the egress on the side there? And I said put my front windows back the way I had drawn them. And that's what they did! However every single change was like that. Also, I have always loved a U-shaped main floor, but never fully pulled it off with any of our ideas. Yours is wonderful. Thank you. Thank you ILoveRed.