Ralleia, Hello fellow Omahan! Looks like you should be a member of our local C&S club! That's a massive Jade for sure. I keep mine small by not moving them up to bigger pots for the same reason - small house, not enough room for a "tree". They'll stay compact and smallish if you keep them pruned back and in a smaller pot. Is yours a hugely branched single trunk? If there are a whole lot of smaller plants in the same pot, I'd remove all the smallest ones and go back to a single-trunked plant. You'd end up with a smaller plant, smaller pot, and something more manageable, and lots to give away. (I have a neighbor who asks for plant donations every year in the fall for a festival at Holy Cross... another idea of how to get rid of the excess...) Once you do this, you can shape it up and keep it a reasonable size by some yearly strategic pruing of both foliage and roots. Denise in Omaha (too)

When we thought our door was going to be too small, that is exactly what my GC said he could do, was cut it down. We too bought the Fluence (which by the way I was told is the exact same door that's on "in stock" on the floors at the Big Box stores) and when we discovered the door was actually going to be too small, my GC built out the whole wall so it would fit and not have a funky edge. I wouldn't blame the tile guy unless he's your general contractor for the job. I hate to say this but in construction you can't just assume something will fit. Things vary in size and it would have been wise to have discussed this with him BEFORE laying the tile. When you add the thickness of the backerboard, thinset & tile, it can take as much as 1.5 inches on each side of your opening and this needs to be taken into consideration when you are measuring for the door. I hope that Bill or Mongo step in with a suggestion, and you're able to find a resolution.

This is a really personal decision about how things work and look. The doors themselves are going to be around 21" wide. Forgive me for not bothering with the fractions but I don't think it matters too much. 15" deep cabinet + 21" door equals the door extending about 10 inches further into the room than the counter top. So there is a potential for getting face-hit too. Me, I wouldn't do the glass doors cause I share your concern for needing stuff in the cabinet to look pretty (better things to do than worry about how 86" of upper guts appear). I'd have some concern for cleaning the glass - particularly if there are grids. Also concern of the glass doors banging into the sides of the oven or hood resulting in broken glass or beaten looking cabinets. I know there are some door stop devices but again, we're just not that careful of stuff but you might be fine. You might think about asking after sliders and/or decorative glass that somewhat obscures the interior view. Think about whether it would work better as 27/30/33" uppers and a gap before the hood, altho doors might stick out over the counters by 4-5". Another thought would be paired 21" cabinets instead with the resulting doors that are 10-11" wide. The door would still be just at the edge of the counter or just a little bit longer.

Hi everyone! Here’s what it looks like now! We’ll be adding natural wood colored nightstands and lamps to add the gold accents. Thinking to potentially add gold sconces on each side if we don’t do the lamp route. Couple things I would’ve done differently: spend more time sanding down the wood filler between joints and nail holes, explore paint sprayer rather than using roller/brush. Also we’ll be painting the other walls grey owl by BM to match the rest of the house.