1929Spanish - Love your kitchen! It's funny that you and your husband have different coffee makers. My daughter and her husband do too! We make fun of them all the time. It's really a stubborn thing on the husbands side. They had a drip, but it made a whole pot that they didn't need it. My daughter is a teacher and just wanted to make a quick cup on her way out of the house in the morning. She wanted a Keurig like her mothers. :) Her husband said it was a waste of money and they didn't need another. She bought one anyway - with her money. He said he didn't like the taste and would continue to use HIS drip model. One day my daughter tricked her husband and made a whole pot of coffee, but served him hers from the Keurig. He never suspected. But now that the cat is out of the bag, he is even more determined to use his machine. Good thing they have a large kitchen with loads of counter space.

Yeah, that would be my instinct, too. But I guess it's still tidier and nicer to have the coffee in it's own area, even if you are looking at an open cabinet (appliance garage) for an hour or two each morning... do you think? Seems I have seen photos where people are actually brewing coffee IN the cabinet, or coffee cabinets with no counter TO pull it out to, and I thought, "hmmm, that doesn't seem quite right!" OTOH, I have worked on so many photo shoots I know that stylists and photographers often prop shots in ways that are nothing like the reality of using the things being photographed!

Make sure that you measure the room left for your sink first - the hardware of the tip out trays extends about an inch behind the cabinet opening. We had purchased a tip out tray, and installed it prior to installing the sink (for ease of installation,or so we thought.) We went a different way with a different sink, and the front to back depth of the sink precluded the use of a tip out tray (there is very little room between the sink basin and the front edge of the cabinet.) I sadly removed the tip out tray, but did a little problem solving and installed the plastic "sponge holder" that came with my tip out tray hardware (purchased too far in advance to get a refund) to the upper interior side of the sink cabinet. I use it for backup sponges, as well as the scrubby that i want to hide from others (I do not want my MIL using a scrubby on my glass stove top or on my stainless appliances.) It works great there. I also hid the chocolate chips that I don't want my kids ravaging before I bake the cookies :) Maybe I should start a new thread.

My tea station is a 30" bank of drawers. The top drawer is 8" to accommodate tea canisters (most tea now comes from various sources, but the canisters are consistent - just need my chalkboard labels to arrive!). It also fits mugs, the honey jar, strainers, and tea spoons. The drawer below is for tea pots and extra mugs. I have a Breville glass kettle that heats water to different temperatures which is nonnegotiable for me! It's unobtrusive enough that I'm fine with it just sitting on the counter - I use it so often taking it out of anything would drive me nuts! Tea cups are in the glass door cabinets above.