I have the exact configuration of a full depth refrigerator (ours is SxS, but the door situation is the same idea) next to a pantry. I was worried. I checked. I measured. I worried. It turned out perfect. The pantry door opens beyond 90 degrees. Actually it opens to its full stop which may be 110 degrees. Here's why. The door is about 19 inches wide, which sticks out WAY past the closed refrigerator door. So the cabinet pull can only hit air and since the door approaches the refrigerator at an angle, it goes past the refrigerator door before it extends as far to the side as the refrigerator. I don't know if that makes much sense. I'll post a picture if you haven't already decided against it. I do have a 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inch refrigerator side panel instead of 3/4 inch so that helps too. I'm not sure if I can hit the refrigerator with the cabinet door if I try intentionally. I think I can, but my point here was that the cabinet door would open past 90 degrees which is necessary for a pull out. Having the refrigerator stick out past the cabinets (standard depth ref.) has another side benefit. It's harder to hit the cabinets with the refrigerator door too. In my case my refrigerator has a stop BEFORE the cabinets. I can force it further, but it stops automatically before the cabinets. If it were counter depth it would probably be too close to the cabinets when open and might hit them. - Jim

@ erett The travertine-look tile is too blue for your kitchen. Sorry but that's going to be one BIG clash. The more marble-y looking one is the best match to the counter tops AND the cabinets. Right now the cabinets are driving everything towards the creams (yellow based white). As for running right over top of the current tile, I am going to caution you to think about this one. Please take the time to purchase an 8ft long level (the metal things with the glass bubble in it) and stretch it across your current floor. See how FLAT and SMOOTH it is. Vinyl is highly flexible. It LOVES to dip down into hollows (grout lines and pits in the tile) and hump over edges (each edge of each tile). We call this telegraphing = horrible thing to have happen when you spend money on a 'perfect' floor. I can tell the tiles have some texture to them. That texture has to be 'knocked down'. That is to say you need to grind them (all that dust you were trying to avoid = still going to happen). And then they have to be filled (leveling cement = SLC). But before you do that you probably have to prime them. Each and every 'high point' of the tiles (normally seen at each and every grout line) has to lie flat against the next tile = filling all grout lines. Whew. The cost of doing that = $2-$3/sf (depends one where you live). The cost of removing the tile = $2-$3/sf. The benefit of removing the tile = you never have to deal with them ever again = very good thing.

I bought a house that had been advertised as a "white Victorian". Actually., it was an early Colonial Revival and from a watercolor rendering I knew it had originally been a khaki color with dark green shutters and a red cedar shingled roof. The white was lifeless so I painted it a soft yellow. So many people rang my doorbell to ask the name of the color that I made some cards and kept them on a table near the door. The closest one is 5 doors away and still yellow. I recently painted it the original color. I wish I could afford the shutters.

You're evaluating the windows with nothing in the room. I wouldn't block a single window but take advantage of them! My gosh, most people would love to have so much light coming in. Do you need window treatments at all for privacy? Do you have a view? Do you have photos of the room from other angles so people can advise on furniture placement? If so, please post those photos. --If you need window coverings for privacy, then Install solar shades on the long window and the one next to it since you can't really hang long curtains in front of what looks like a heater on the right wall. --Turn the far wall into a reading/relaxing space with a chaise in front of the full-length window. --Add a bookshelf below the small, wide window and put live plants on top or sculptures backlit by the light coming in. Please don't block those windows with anything but the most minimal window coverings and let there be light!