roobear, thanks so much for letting me know. I've passed on the info to my mom and she was shocked . . .she hates taking medicine for this very reason (side effects!!!) and avoids it whenever possible. She's really happy for the info. susan: I am so sorry for your pain! I wish none of us had ailments. I keep trying to think of the Buddhist mindset, that while pain is inevitable, suffering does not have to be. sable: I never knew that tinnitus could be genetic! I have been so concerned with it that, like I mentioned, I have gone to great lengths to protect my ears, but in this society, I find it hard . . .we live in such a noisy world. Even at places like the ZOO there are loud noises (and I don't mean the roaring of a lion). I am so glad to hear that your DS and DH have reached a point of making peace with it. yvette: Yes, I agree. Sometimes medicine does more harm than good, that is for sure. My mom got it not from medicine . . .but from a bad cold. I wonder if that sometimes could be how others get it as well, and if it is a coincidence that they've taken a certain medicine? Amy: This is such good news! My DH bought me a neti pot last night, but then my sister told me some are better than others, so I have not used it yet in case I need to return it. Does the brand matter or are they pretty much the same? Yesterday I kept in mind what everyone said, and it was a much better day. I just tried not to think about it (helped that I was out with the kids for a long time) and then at night, I was able to sleep with the windows open and enjoy the crickets outside instead of the mechanical noise in my head. I actually slept very well! I credit the advice from all of you for that!

I agree with Igloo - problems only keep persisting because customers do not hold people accountable for their mistakes, so more mistakes are made the next time and so on. It is up to US, the customers, to stop this vicious cycle. Odie, the cabinets have to be level for the counters. That being said, the bottom of the pantry does appear lower in the pics. With black toekicks this may be very noticeable. You might end up having to paint them yellow if your floors are not level. Sorry, just a fact of life. Drawers - Yes and no. They do not have to be the same size rails and stiles as the doors - they must be in proportion. The PROBLEM is the BOTTOM RAIL of the BOTTOM drawers - that SHOULD be the same width as the rails on the doors and they are not. Tell him to replace just the bottom rails and it will all be to scale - right now it is NOT in proportion and it does look wrong. Your bottom drawers are deeper than the middle drawers, so the rails are not even to scale on the bottom drawer on it's own, and glaring next to the doors. You may need new rails on both the top and bottom of the bottom drawers - I think that is the only way it will look right. Have him do a mock-up and paint it the same color so you can see how it looks. Apparently he made the middle drawer to scale and just transfered the same rail width to the bottom drawers - bad move. OHH Yeah! DEFINITELY BOTH rails on those bottom drawers! I just looked again and it looks WAY out of scale, especially right beneath the middle drawer (which is correct). Here the problem is the proportion of flat panel (negative space) to the frame - too much negative space in the bottom drawers, made worse because the stiles are wider than the rails. Oddly, in the shot of the cabinet next to the D/W it looks alright, but from the other angle it is way off. I'd have ALL the bottom drawers fixed, though. Because that cabinet is narrower it is not so bad, but it is obvious that the bottom rail does not match the bottom rails on the doors. Actually, looking again, because that bottom drawer is off, it actually makes the drawer above it look too elongated - the middle drawer is correct, but the narrow rails on the bottom drawer make it appear as a square when in fact it should also appear as a rectangle. Just count your blessings that the top drawers are slab fronts! (As I take it as a sign from Above that yes, going Mid-Mod over Craftsman is the right move!) BTW: I'm not a fancy moulding person either, but that moulding actually does look good and to scale on your cabinets. D/W and range panels - you said you specified 3/4" panels and thought he jipped you. Not so! The 3/4" are the SIDES of the cabinets! That trim is there only to create the same reveal as on the rest of the cabinets. Trust me, this is a good thing - you will have a visually tight fit around the appliances, but there will be space for airflow between them and the cabinets, so that is good. You will never see the gap once the counters go in. The only thing that might concern me are the counter supports over the D/W space. One is plywood, the other solid wood. My only concern would be that the solid piece will expand and contract more with the moisture from the D/W.

Thanks Meyers! Now I see the most lovely edge ever, and your fabricator has to go to school to learn how to do?? I can see that it's complicated, but gorgeous. The second edge is amazing as well, I've seen this photo before and hadn't noticed the edge since there is so much loveliness going on in this kitchen. Is the first photo your kitchen? It's very beautiful :) mpagmom, thanks for posting this, it's cool, I've not seen this one before. I need to educate myself more on edges; I don't understand what laminating is in terms of edges. Is that how they get them to be so thick?

A lot of us have friends that live elsewhere ... but a lot of jasdip's fiends ("friends", that was supposed to be: honest!)... are worms ... that make themselves at home in her apt. She does get some useful work out of them. ole joyful