I lean towards the brushed stainless/satin nickel myself but take a look around your kitchen and any other adjoining rooms and see what other metals dominate in your fixtures and furniture. Choose something that would mix well...not necessarily match but would play well with the others. I personally don't think your doorknobs have to match your lights and faucets and door hinges.

I saw this post a while back and I wasn't quite sure I wanted to go out on that limb. This will be easy to figure out, but can you post a photo of the water feature? I'd have to see the trough to give a definitive answer, but here's what I've come up with so far: Now, these gpm figures are the ones I use. Somebody else may use different numbers, but these are mine and I haven't had to eat a pump yet. Key word: yet! 3' sheer descent = 36 gpm spouts = 10 gpm each x3 That's the easy part, but depending on the trough design you might need no more flow or lots more flow. I'm assuming you have, or will have, valves in place to adjust and balance the flow to all these features, as well as a bypass line to send the excess flow directly back into the pool. Yes? As for the filter pump, let's go with a quick 6 hour turnover rate. Some people use 8 hours and to be honest I don't remember what the "rule" is on that because it's a moot point for me since I use at least a dual-speed pump if not an Intelliflo, so I want the higher flow rate of a 6 hr. turnover since that will give me a higher flow rate on the low speed for less-compromised skimming and the possibility of getting the heater to fire on low speed. My logic might be askew, I don't know. I love being able to run spas on low speed and still have the heater fire up. It's quiet, it's safer, it's cheap, it's nice. Anyways, a 30,000 gallon pool would need 83 gpm for a 6 hr. turnover. I'm sure you're getting that with your 1.5HP. So you could run your pump for 6 hours a day, maybe more in the summer. I think you'd also get that with a 1HP, especially given the likelihood of having 2 or 3 suction lines open at once. So you could run that for 6 hours a day, or more if needed in the summer. What type of cleaner do you have? If you have an in-floor system, then that may necessitate the 1.5HP. Now, if you went with a dual-speed pump, you could run it on high speed just long enough for some good skimming and cleaning action, then switch to low speed for simple filtration for the duration of the time required to turn the pool over. The flow cuts in half on low speed, but the energy savings are astronomical, even though you run it twice as long. The Intelliflo offers more speeds, which is really cool for me on a pool/spa with solar and this-and-that, but if the pool only really need two speeds and the math works out to the flows it needs, then I'm happy enough with the dual-speed. For now. Have you gotten an electric bill yet since you've had the pool running? I'd love to know how much that pump is costing to operate. Check out your meter when the pump is on. It's scary to me.

rebunky I just now saw your pics. I love the picture that you had saved for awhile. My island cabinets are very similar to the blue in that picture :) It's been scrunch time and I've spent the last two days going nuts trying to figure out my counters! I think I've come to a decision for the island counter top. I've decided like the look of ceaserstone more than granite and love the Bianco Drift. I think it will be a really good match for the blue island. I need to go and get a physical sample though to make sure the two do really go well together. Here it is: As for the perimeter... I don't know yet. Maybe I'll stick to the same.

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