Here are my comments. Miele Combi Steam/Convection Oven - great choice. I would stay away from ANYTHING Thermador makes - expensive to repair, frequent repairs and poor customer service. I don't have experience with Electrolux, but the micro/oven combo I like is the GE Profile Advantium upper with a 30" convection lower (Combo is about $4,000). That Advantium oven does a MUCH better job than a regular microwave. Would not buy Viking, period, for the same reasons as Thermidor above. Viking took over the old Amana refrigerator plant. They are a great marketing company, but a poor product and service company. I'd suggest a KitchenAid 22CF panel-ready French-door cabinet depth R/F or possibly a GE Profile similar model if you're not going to put in a built-in refrigerator (SubZ et al). Miele dishwashers are great as are Bosch and KitchenAid, who now have the same type of filter system as Miele and Bosch do (they got rid of the built-in garbage disposals which make dishwashers much noisier). BlueStar Rangetop is fine. Personally I like Capital Culinarian - 25K Btu on 5 of the 6 burners and I think a 12K Btu simmer burner. Getting back to your oven situation, i'm in a remodel now where I'm putting in a 6-burner Capital Culinarian all-gas range with a Miele XXL Combi-Steam oven. No need for a 30" convection wall oven or a built-in microwave. Our microwave (which we just use to reheat beverages primarily) will be an under cabinet GE Profile model (cheap - $350). the Combi-Steam oven does a much better job of re-heating leftovers than microwaves do and it's great for steaming, roasting, baking bread, etc.

Looking at the shade of blue you've chosen, I would paint the stairway beige. (The blue might make it seem like a cave, and you certainly don't want use the brown, great color, but too dark for an entire stairway...) Is the ceiling in the kitchen freshly painted? I think the soffit would look okay painted to match the ceiling. If you want the seamless look, certainly paint it brown to match the walls. I tend to go with that opinion when I am asked for work. (I have my own small business.) Also, it's a bit easier! Looks like you have decent cabinets! Seems like a cute house!

There's a heckuvalot going on in that bathroom! Too much! The wallpaper totally clashes and the window treatment has to go. The way it is right now, the tiles don't match, but you can probably save those by painting the room a warm taupe. You also need to tie in the granite countertop somehow. I don't like the shade of the cabinets. They almost look pink to me, but it could be because of the pink wallpaper. I love the setup of the shower and the glass cubes. I think once you get rid of the wallpaper and the window covering, you will figure out what to do from there.

Hi, My opinion is that you can never have a window too big, but I'd be more concerned that you're designing a permanent architectural feature around furniture. Questions I'd ask myself if I was doing this would be: "Do the windows look balanced from the outside, do they look odd without the armoire, what am I going to see out of these windows, will my curtains be thick and dark enough so I could watch tv during the daytime, etc." If the view out the window is nice, find another place for the tv and put three windows there. :) Mitch