Hi Richard Thanx For That... It was a swapmeet find & they didn't know what it was... Kind of looked like a Till. to me, but was potted & growing like a Brom... Wanted to make sure I potted it up right... Thanx Again For The Info., Appreciate It, E G G

Here is what I feel is weird about this design... The butler's pantry is really far removed from the kitchen making your dining entry rather far from your kitchen as well. Really, it makes the dining room feel more like a formal living room space (albeit with a butler's pantry attached). I'd be more likely to flip the locations of the butler's pantry and 1/2 bath than the pantry and 1/2 bath. For this strange layout reason, I too was thinking it would make more sense to enter via the dining room (rather than foyer) location. How to "fix" this? Well, your front facade isn't symmetrical as is, so I would not worry about symmetry (if so, you need to rethink your playroom location). I would suggest having the foyer more central to the back of your house (more across from your eat in dining location). And, put your play room in the office location, dining in office part and foyer, and office where your playroom is located (bring that playroom wall forward some to match the rest and then your foyer can be truly centered again). This also "solves" the problem I mentioned in an earlier thread--you can't see the playroom and what is going on in there from most of the first floor. While this is nice in the sense it is easy to close off when guests come, it is AWFUL the other 90% of the time when you are trying to manage your household and the kids are playing. You can't supervise from the kitchen (where you will likely spend most of your household management time), for example. Putting it in the location of the current office location makes it easy access from the kitchen. To accomodate these changes upstairs, I think it would be easy enough to flip the foyer space and the lower left bedroom spaces. It also maybe privatizes your master just a little more. Just my 2 cents... It does mean redoing that front 1/2 of the house, but I think it would be worth it.

You have way to many recessed lights, and you show no under cabinet lights. If this were my lay-out, I would have 4 -5" recessed cans with 75par30/fl in the centre of the kitchen,1-5" can in the doorway area,3- pendants, or 4" low woltage cans over the eating/cook top counter,2-4" low voltage cans over the short counter, 1 surface mount fixture in the counter, and under cabinet lighting (flourescent fixtures or xenon puck lights...your choice) attached to all your upper cabinets. The 5" cans would be on one switch leg , the cook top area on another,the short counter on another, the surface mount on another, and the cabinet light on the last switch leg. You can put dimmers on the switch legs of your choice I would use 35MR16/nfl in the low voltage units, and I would use clear alzak trims in all cans I wouls also suggest a 4" can over the sink

Yes I love that fabric too! I had leftovers from when I purchased it in 2003 to make a valance for the window above the sink in my old kitchen. It went really well with the dark cabinets I had then. We painted that kitchen in SW Restrained Gold, which really complemented the fabric. Unfortunately, that shade doesn't work with the lighter cabinetry and is too dark for this space. Wow, you rattled off a lot of BM options here! I don't own their fan deck, but their store is around the corner from me so I will have to investigate. I had actually considered the BM Maple Leaf Red for my breakfast room, but then it seemed too dark for fabric I bought for the window treatments in there (Bosporus Toile 128) I went ahead and added a couple of pictures of the fabric and breakfast room... Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen photos