Sorry for not posting back until now; all our things are finally moved into our new home. Now to clean the old one so we can get renters! Thank you all for your opinions and advice! I did go ahead and order the Kenmore range. I considered a GE range, but in the end, I would have had to pay almost 2xs as much for a similarly featured range. I did research through consumer reports, and for 2013, GE and Frigidaire tied for first, for brand reliability in the gas range category. Kenmore was just one point behind. I also have a Kenmore range in my old home (don't know if it was made by Frigidaire at that time), and it is at least 12 years old. It doesn't look pretty, but everything is still functioning well. Anyway, for the price I couldn't justify the GE purchase. There are both good and bad reviews for both brands. It seems you either luck out with a good appliance, or a problematic one, in either case! Thanks again!

Kim, one of the problems I deal with every day is one-dimensional color theory being applied to the three-dimensional. It's like trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole. Pound hard enough and you can probably get that peg wedged in that round hole to the point that you can say it fits. The square peg will be battered. Corners clumsily whittled and splintered. By no means a good fit in that round hole, but it made it in none the less. I think there is much work to be done. :-) Intensity, chromaticity or chroma, saturation are *for the most part* interchangeable terms in wall color world. They basically deal with the same. Brightness and dullness. Vivid or weak. Vibrant or muted. How has a hue been altered to create a color and what is the resulting color's relationship to black. Or, you could also look at it as how close has the color been moved towards a neutral gray. Nuance is a very important term to understand relative to paint color in particular. It's a two-dimensional term. Could say it sums up light/dark and chroma/saturation/intensity all in one visual evaluation. It's a great term to use to talk about the mood and character one sees in and feels from a color. Hue and color are not the same thing and are not interchangeable. IMO any way. Pink and red are not the same color, but they both have the same root hue, red. Hue is what you start with. It's the genesis of a color. Color is what results when you do something to the root hue. Defining what the primary or root hues are can make for very interesting color conversation. lol! :-) It can depend on which corner of color world you are talking about too. Whether you are talking additive or subtractive. Each of those terms can have further detail, can be used to deconstruct color further and for more specific application. And there are many more color terms in the same boat. i.e. What's the difference between luminance and reflectance? Is there a difference? Some people use the word saturation solely to speak to how close to white a color has been moved. Chroma strictly to describe pureness of color, how pure or muddied is the color. It goes on and on... Some would simply classify it as semantics. Others would blast the semantics argument and flat out call it too lazy to learn *proper* color vocabulary. Hard part is getting agreement on exactly what *proper* color vocabulary is.

I was watching "Sarah's House" earlier this week (she's a Canadian celebrity designer) and I snorted when I heard her say that kitchen appliances should all match and come from the same brand. I love Sarah's designs but she obviously doesn't think too much about the functionality of appliances. I, too, have an aversion to matchy matchy appliances. My Miele DW, Capital Range and Kitchen Aid refrigerator (like yours) all have the same finish but different handles. They look great in my kitchen and more importantly, I love how they perform!

This may help to get some creative juices flowing:Perhaps the bathroom can be rearranged to have the sink within the same room as the shower and watercloset, sharing required floor space access to the fixtures. (if my interpretation of your drawing is correct)