The house I grew up in (an 1890's Victorian in Maine) had the most fabulous pantry: it was basically a hall between the kitchen and formal DR. It had a window, with a gorgeous OLD copper sink and OLD gooseneck faucet set (not sure what metal, maybe bronze or something similar?) in OLD wooden counters (with beautiful patina) with the old, original cabinetry and hardware. My parents renovated the kitchen (with uber-modern slab cabinets and curved island, because Dad is an architect!) but that pantry was just left as-is. My mom always had the copper sink filled with plants. In retrospect, it was totally in need of some spit-and-polish, but I still loved it. How I WISH I had that pantry now!

NYCbluedevil, I agree that I do not want a clown car kitchen! Nancy, our lighting is actually simpler than what is shown, but I agree we do have a lot going on. I like plain frosted glass, but my designer warned me that texture tends to show marks easily if anything damp or greasy touches the surface and is hard to keep clean looking. Have you had experience with frosted glass? Michoumonster, our exterior door, whatever design we pick, will be laminated to meet local energy codes. I had not thought about that for the pantry. The Paris is cool looking (and my favorite city) but not quite opaque enough. Camphappy, that is a good point about tempered glass - thanks for the reminder. Localeater, that is an interesting idea - I will run it by my designer. I can picture doing a vertical strip of rectangles and squares maybe 1/3 of the way over from one side, with a very opaque glass on one side of the line and a less opaque glass on the other side. The more opaque glass could be repeated on the pantry doors to tie the elements together. DH and I picked out a few glass textures we think might work. What do you think of these? If we pick a pattern with lines/ridges, do you think vertical or horizontal would be better? Ripple: Quarter Reed: Pilkington Stippolyte: Pattern 62: Master Point: Cord: Cannes: Thela:

Thanks for input. Removing backsplash not an option & of course decisions are easier when replacing all! But, sounds like your idea is to tie new counter in to backsplash color. The backsplash & granite do look more color complementary to each other when seen in person! The granite background isn’t as white as appears & is warmer. It’s Santa Cecilia granite but the lightest example we’ve ever seen of it.

Great job! Sleek, modern, gorgeous! The grain in the bamboo wood lines up nicely. I especially love the backsplash‘s color and when I blew up the photo the tile pattern is really cool too. Perfect match with the stools. Please tell us the name of the tile and source as I’m sure others would like to know. Lastly, I love your alphabet prints and how they add so much interest and color.