one -- We ended up with a deep sill at our sink window, not because we bumped out the wall but because the wall had to be furred out, four inches into the kitchen. Our sill is about 8" deep. There's a 3" soapstone backsplash and about 3" of painted apron below the sill. We considered using soapstone for the sill, but didn't because it would have looked so much heavier/darker. Also, the fabricator balked at making the narrow little "ear" piece of the sill shape, that extends out to each side, without breaking the stone. Given the water concerns (from plants and splashing from the sink) we chose to make the sill and apron out of vinyl Azek boards. Once painted, it looks just like the wood on the rest of the window trim. By the way, I wouldn't recommend putting double hung windows over a counter. It is hard to reach them to open and close. and two -- Here's what the boxed-out windows look like in the living room and dining room of our 1920's bungalow. The picture is of the living room, but the dining room is the same, though only three windows wide. The kitchen window trim was modeled after these. The ten inches you have sounds like more of a perch than a seat, I think. Ours are comfortable, at 15" deep. (This is, far and away, EVERYONE'S favorite spot in the house.) They have no back, though, and they're 26" off the floor, so they're not really suitable for dining. If you were to lower the seat and add a comfortable seat back below the window panes, it could work very well on one side of a dining table, especially if you built the bench part into the room enough inches to give you a comfortable seat depth.

We are remodeling our kitchen and are at a point of making a decision on the tile in this window. I'm needing advise as to continue the tile into the window (as previously done) or stop at the window. Due to the tile and spacing from counter top to cabinet we would have to trim the top tile. What are your thoughts?

Junction box is centered in the room and it's actually one that wraps around the joist. I thought about adding a recessed light there but it would just be in the center of the room which I dont think would help with lighting because it would create shadows on both sides. Therefore since it suppose to have easy access I can't just stick a junction box on the stud and drywall it over. That's the reason I thought about using the cover linked above so there would be access to comply with codes. BTW thanks, I like the granite and cabinets as we'll but my wife hates the color of the cabinets. She wants them darker. Possibly gel stain but that's way down the list of things to do of me :)

Could we see some closeup pictures of the tiled box out window over the sink? I want to do this with my window and I've gotten nothing but stanky side eye from every person I've told but I know in my heart of hearts it would look gooooood!