I don't know if this is the post you were referring to, but it's inspiring! Here is a link that might be useful: Copper countertop

...I apologize for the delay in my response, life (and software learning curve) got in the way. Below are some responses to your direct questions, and some other info that I hope will help those interested in formulating their responses, for which I am very grateful. GreenDesigns -- In fact, on many levels, you have a worse functioning kitchen in your new plan than in your old kitchen. So, if you want to save about 20K-40K, keep your layout and just tweak the existing space. ---> Understood about the utility. The reasons for doing over the kitchen are both utility and space, the latter of which I suppose we would expect to enhance the former. We certainly don't want to go down this road, get more space, and have less utility. rhome410 -- How many people will work in this space, and do you cook and bake a lot? Do you entertain a lot? Can you share your needs, wants, and problems with the current one that you most want to fix? If you're open to other ideas, sometimes it helps to show a little more of the floorplan around the kitchen. Some of the people here are very creative and have great eyes for seeing possibilities and making suggestions that might be 'out of the box.' --->My wife loves to cook, and spends alot of time in the kitchen. We do entertain alot (small to medium dinner parties). We also have two college age kids away, one 10 year old at home, so the size of the family ebbs and flows. We are looking for more storage, more work space, and more efficient use of the space in the house (hence breaking through to use half of what is now the Kids Room, a TV/computer/toy room that in another house would be the formal living room. I have displayed a current floorplan of our first floor below. We are open to other thoughts -- when brainstorming, my wife has thought about using the whole Kids Room as the kitchen, and turning the corner into what is now the kitchen, but her inspiration stops there. We are not wedded to keeping a formal dining room, as long as we have seating for dining near the kitchen. You can see that the space between the kitchen and the family room is kind of wasted space. blfenton -- Do you need both sets [of french doors] or will a large picture window in place of one of the doors suffice, and if so, which door is most necessary for ease of entering and exiting and which one is redundant. Regarding a desk... --->We do not need both sets of doors. The genesis of that was that we had originally conceived of a four light, but we have a plumbing pipe that comes from upstairs thru that wall, so we broke it into a couple of two lights. Not needed logistically. The plan for the desk is gone, for a variety of reasons. lisa_a -- A U-kitchen with island. 3 seats at the peninsula, 42" sink cab with DWs spaced about 12" away so that you have room to stand at the sink and load either when the door is open. --->This is a concept that my wife had proposed, as she decided that she did not want to have...

You mean rotate it so it goes lenghthwise across your kitchen between stove leg to fridge leg? I'm sorry but the math doesn't add up: Two times 24" counters plus 3 inches counter overhang =4'3", subtract another 3'6", plus 3" for the long length of the island and overhang out of 13' 5" total width of the room, you're using up 8' leaving just 5'5" to be divided into TWO aisles of 32.5" apiece? In addition, in the case of the fridge which sticks out a further six inches (plus the 3 or 4 " shown on plan), that would mean you are now down to a choke point of 22". I wouldn't do it as this will make both the main pathways very narrow and in addition inadvertently funnel increased traffic past the range as it will look like the widest path to enter the work zone. Options: shorten rotated island. Or change shape of island (make it round). Make island into a peninsula attached to cabs by stove or fridge. That would be better for seating. As you now have it, only one seat at island that is viable (on end farthest from sink.) Others will create endless hassles while working in the kitchen. Do you need an island? Do you need counter-height seating? What are you willing to give up to get them? Another suggestion consider 30" deep counters all around to make open space smaller, decrease hikes in kitchen and increase storage and prep possibilities, and skip the island completely, or turn it into a small counter-height snack table out of the main kitchen work zone. HTH, L.

Pretty sure that will work. A lot of this depends on the inspector. We just did one with almost 14" overhang and inspector never checked. Other times we had to do a temp set up which they knew we would change when he signed off. This was in LA also. You should email him the photo and ask to be sure. Don't go by people here. Your inspector has the final say.