Hi all. We met with our house designer today. The goods and the bads. Bonus - he was able to give me another foot on the fridge wall (yay) so that helps with the blind corner (I want to close it off to preserve drawers) and the pantry was also enlarged which will allow for my small chest freezer. The overall kitchen dimension is 9' x 15'. The 'it will have to do': pantry is still around the corner. I think it will be okay. It will keep my peeps out of the sink/stove area. They will access pantry for cereal and snacks and the fridge is right there out of my work zone. I could get creative and have the kitchen side cabs open to the pantry and put the cereal and most used items there - how fun would that be? Because that wall backs to pantry I can also recess the cabs and fridge if I need them deeper as well. The MW has to go on that wall...and they are deeper than 12". I am feeling much relieved as this last draft that he did for us (he already sent it because our changes were few and to other parts of the house) is 99% on. We are still studying it though. :) I will post this latest draft with a few questions and see what you all think. There are 2 main things I am contemplating. One is the cupboard pantry reach through (I think dh would think that is CRAZY) but I think it may be a perfect compromise. Would that be something that is super expensive to do? The other is still trying to fit in this sort of thing. It is Michelle16's and she has a fridge and pantry flanking whereas I'd have just the fridge to the right and a corner would be on the left. I have 4' to play with there from fridge to where corner would start. I will try to post the new layout tonight but it may not be until tomorrow! Thanks. Lisa

bbstx and shades - that might be the case as on one side of one is the side panel to the opening for the stove and to one side of the other is the side panel to the opening for dw. I'd have Jed be very careful - and then put them back in with another slide out thing on them. thx movinginva - I thought it was a great idea and I'm still glad to see something like that available at HD (local), then I remembered that I only need a rather small trash bin (I don't have that much 'garbage' type trash. I probably only need one to hold about 3-4 gals (size for T or W type plastic bags). BUT, I do think I should start using one for paper /cardboard type trash. I wouldn't mind having paper type 'trash' on a lower shelf with something like soda bottles or water jugs above it.

Monica,,,i've never seen a solid panel of stained glass as a backsplash. these stained glass come in sheets, but I don't think they come in large enough single sheets to do the wall. you would have to get pieces . Don't know how that would look. you could call a company that makes the glass and see if you could custom order one to the size you need. As for the back painted glass, they cut the glass to your size specs and use a special paint meant for glass

I used a glazed Dal tile to get the look of brick for my backsplash. Glazed= cleanable Everyone "here" hated it on my reveal. Yet... on the TV show "The Chew"...THEY have a brick backsplash......a designer chose it. I also own a rental house that has brick on one wall....everyone loves it! .....even tho it's Z-brick....it looks kinda fake. It's up to YOU. Dal Tile Link