Thank you! The top part will be the wine racks, just like in the picture I am using for inspiration. The 2 squares towards the top are roughly the measurements of the racks with wine glasses in them. I am going to buy new towels, but, after taping up these papers, I folded one of my towels I have now and held it up to make sure there would be sufficient room. The way I currently have it, I would need to use the step ladder to reach the wine glasses, but, I think if I moved everything down the lowest racks might be too low (not sure). However, I don't use the wine glasses every day, so that would be ok. Thanks again. I truly appreciate your feedback.

I love this! the black looks great. nice job. Can you do the towels on the lower rung and therefore lower some of the others? if not, I'm sure the glasses up top will be fine.

Thank you, Beth, since it was you who originally gave me the idea of that picture a month ago. It is a big improvement from the red, right? I'm glad you like it. That is a great idea to put the towels on the lower rack. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

yes I love it. when you get the utensils in and the pic, it will really perk up! love that black door! i'm a sucker for black doors and trim anyway, so you can't go wrong.

Thanks! And thank you for the black door/trim idea too! I never would have thought of that. If you don't mind me asking, what do you think about the idea of the 3 floating shelves for spice jars next to the artwork?

I like it. did you pick out the rug? and what else are we doing in here?

these are from ikea and would go well w/your coloring

I was thinking of using this 14" X14" picture. I like those IKEA rugs, but was unable to find them on the IKEA website.

Oops, here is the picture

found out they're only selling those rugs in Denmark. lol. no wonder you can't find them.

Ha, ha! No wonder! Well at least now I have an idea of what would look nice so I can search for something similar. Thank you.

How about this one?

How much of a filler is on the cabinet door at the end, near the wall? Will these interfere with the door opening? You may not find it a problem even if you can't open the door 100% but if there are any pullouts you will need full opening. Even a projection of a couple inches on the racks or things on it could affect this.

Like pal, I'd be concerned about the door opening, and potentially smashing the wine glasses!

(I'm glad you're putting up the Lab instead of knives; knives on a magnet in a straight-on view like that would give me the shivers.

Thank you palimpsest and bpathome. I had considered that issue (the cabinet doors not being able to open fully) in the beginning, but hadn't since purchasing the racks. It is a good idea to reassess now so I just did that, thanks. The racks themselves only come out 1-2 inches, so it is not that big of an impediment. The little bucket-like containers on the bottom racks will come out even further, so perhaps I should not use those and just stick to items like frying pans, and measuring cups that would hang closer to the wall.

As for the wine glasses, I hadn't considered that those racks project out the furthest, and, as you pointed out, the glasses could get smashed if the alignment were such that the metal rack were above the doors opening, and the glasses below it. Not good! I have repositioned the paper that represents the wine rack to a place that the wine glasses/rack would not impede any doors opening (see pic below). Hmmmm...

Bpathome, your comment made me laugh. it gave me the shivers too! I prefer knives to be put away safe in a drawer.

Decide on the spice bottles you will be using and make the spacing accordingly because spice bottles come in all shapes and sizes. I bought a nice rack for mine and my taller bottles will only fit the top open shelf the others have to take the smaller bottles. I should have read the measurements for the rack better but at least I can put out a regularly used assortment.

I like the look of what you are doing.

open the doors and see where they meet in the middle. The deepest containers can go in the middle, shallowing out to the ends. And you can put an adjustable stopper pin in the door hinge to keep it from opening too far. Where does the door lead? Does it usually need to open all the way? Or is "mostly" far enough most of the time?

Ravencajun, bpathome and everyone else who has commented, I am so appreciative of your feedback. It's so helpful!

Thank you again to everyone for your ideas! Fast forward a couple of weeks, and I've finished up painting this room and others, rethought the plan for this wall, keeping in mind all the thoughtful advice from the kind contributors here, and purchased a rug. The new plan is to buy a big 27" picture of the dog (the pic below shows a cut out 27" square paper with a small print out of the dog pic in the center of it). Also, the new plan keeps the 2 racks below the dog pic for towels, measuring cups, etc, and, raises up the one rack at the very top for the wine glasses. Basically, I've moved things around to account for the pantry door (on the left) and cabinet door (on the right) from hitting too many things.

What do you think? Mostly, I am wondering about the wine glasses rack. Here's the thing about the rack with the wine glasses (very top), it would be more decorative than anything because I will have more wine glasses in a cabinet. It could not be lower than in the pic without the wine glasses being smashed by the cabinet door on the right.

If you look closely, you will see there are small blue pieces of tape that form a right angle above the dog picture and to the right. That represents where the cabinet door would hit when open. Keeping that in mind, one alternative would be to lower the wine glass rack, but only have one wine glasses holder, instead of two, and shift it over to the left.

Am also wondering if the size of the dog pic is good. Thank you very much for taking the time to look at this discussion!