There's actually a dealer who's been pushing his wares here (linked below), and he's got a pretty good selection of preformed niches. That said, if you have an installer who's not afraid to make his own, he can lay out th framing so as to make the niche fall cull all the way around, and it'd look much better that way. Either way is acceptable, though, and the preformed would be much less expensive. Here is a link that might be useful: Tile Depot

I plan to hang something in the shower from the ceiling. My neighbor long ago had his daughter macrame a a hanging soap dish, it was beautiful with a shell for the dish at the bottom. The other bathroom will have a faux beam high up, but low enough to reach with lots of room for stuff 5' wide, about 1" tall and 5" deep. gail

@sjhockeyfan, I had a pretty large cookbook collection and it caused sagging within weeks but this time I want to do some display. The shelves will also hold my flours, sugar, etc. over a work table that I am using for baking. The IKEA ones are the closest I have found that I like except for this picture of course. I think West Elm has some too but also very strong either. Are you rooting for the Blackhawks or another team?

My experience with Kraftmaid was awesome, however, we had to have our carpenter do modifications to the fillers and overlays to make them all flush. I think that if money is no object then you just go with the best look you want. Plywood is plywood, but door finish, drawers, inserts, etc do matter when all is said and done. We use a drawer practically for everything and it is so nice (ex. all flour/sugar is in a deep drawer...we never have to pick the canister up). Another cabinet co. I liked but was too expensive had slab doors with glass and the tinted foil under the glass, which would be really nice for clean up and if it broke, just replace glass front (I don't know the co. name). This is our kitchen and we had to work within budget and space and existing hookups: (our fridge will be flush when we get new one; kitchen is not all done):