I think Dune matches the best in the picture (but pictures aren't the same as real life). The marble looks good, and very rich. Thebes is too dark, and it looks like Porcelain is too blue. I like the brightness of Papyrus, however, and think it's worth continuing to consider. Good drawing. I hadn't realized there was wall over the windows. That area was there in the previous drawings, but I had interpreted it as ceiling. Question: Is the bottom of the cabinet on a line with the bottom of the hood? Usually it's a lot lower. Looking at your nice drawing, I'm thinking it would look better either to tile the whole wall, or to stop the tile at the bottom of the hood. This can be done, but it's outside of my experience, so you'll have to ask someone else the best way to trim it so that it has a nice finish, and how to set the hood so that it's in the right place vis-a-vis the thickness of the tiling. Doing that with the wall color on the sides of the hood flare will give you a better horizontal illusion.

Sorry. :) Big box of grout, still. Still no finished pictures, though there were some in the testing of the new FKB. Yes, "her". Is there anything in particular you want to see? I have more photos than are online. This is the one I usually use. The hood currently needs polishing (big job) because of workman handprints, so doesn't look as fine at the moment. :) Here's more of a view of the kitchen--and clutter. It was taken to show some feature of the island rather than as a beauty shot: I also have the tile tour, which shows all of the tiles, rather than the kitchen proper. It's very hard to capture the colors without professional lighting, so I tried to get as much as possible in pure daylight--the more saturated ones in the middle are pretty close to the real thing. The hood photo has the u/c's and hood halogens on, so there's a yellow wash, but the colors are pretty true on my screen, nonetheless. The daylight tile tour is a bit washed out. Thanks for asking! I'm happy to answer any questions.

Hi Eleena, Sorry I missed your message the first time around. I've been caught up in the holiday whirl and don't always look in. The cabinets are all custom made (small local shop, choose the materials, debate the exact sizes kind of custom). The boxes, however, are the standard Euro style full overlay. The part you're calling an inset effect is just chunky framing panels. That was done for style. Usually, people just use the same thickness as their cabinet boxes. My cabinetmaker showed me the chunky ones, which are 3/4" and I really liked the look. That also gives a margin against the wall for hardware (so it won't bang with the door open), which is nice, though not necessary. I'm pretty sure these panels are veneered rather than a solid bamboo product. The boxes, themselves, are maple surfaced plywood. The uppers don't have "light rails" per se because I don't like the look. There is kind of a hybrid between a stabilizing apron and light rail supporting the bottom shelf, with the cabinet door covering the whole thing. Functionally, yes, they are light rails, however, and also hide the plugmold and junction boxes and all. Here are a couple of mid-construction photos, which show better: The lift door hinges are Blum and were purchased by the cabinetmaker. Everything made out of wood was included in the price of the kitchen, including a couple of redos. The very fancy hinges (which are huge) cost beaucoup, but allowed me to have a single panel above each cooler, instead of having to break it up with multiple doors. Worth the money to me. I am, in general, an advocate of function first, rather than looks, but the single lift doors, while they don't really affect function much at all, and if so are probably easier to use than multiples, are one of my big splurge for beauty items (another was an extra couple of hundred dollars so the Advantium wouldn't have a black touch panel (beige instead)). The lights above the sink are cans, and not particularly small. The cans are housed in the cabinet bridge on either side of the heater duct. These particular cans can be either incandescent or halogen (there's a different insert for each), and I would probably use them more if they were incandescent, as planned, but at the last minute the numbers were off for compliance with the California law and they had to be changed out. They're not bad. I just like incandescent light. It's softer. The glass diffusers make a huge difference, however, and when I do use them, I'm thrilled that they're there. I worked with a lighting designer (Brian Brzycki at Walters lighting design gallery) to make sure I could use the kitchen at night without bugging my eyes. These glass diffusers are the kind that are used near showers, et al., to keep out spray, but they also spread the halogen light around and make it more general (more like incandescent). I have these same cans in the corners, by the pantry, and three in the butler's pantry. The glass diffusers also keep the ceiling from having the Swiss cheese look. I hope this helps. :)

Plllog, I'm back! I'll try to keep this short. I signed in from GW to Houzz with my GW name, zone number, etc. and had the Harley pic there. When the avatars became iffy and I tried to comment I got a big white message that said "Sign in to Comment." Not wanting to give up on the KT, I signed in and tried to make a new page. I emailed Houzz several questions and each time they emailed my replies with itsuz being my user name. Actually itsuz is part of my email address. I finally decided to let itsuz be my user name if that is what it would take to get to the KT, and added a flower pic. By clicking on itsuz, the Sue_va page came up as it was originally, and the itsuz page is also there with Sue-va. I tried to delete the itsuz one, but it didn't delete, but it changed to Sue_va so they are both there. When I comment I don't know which one is "working." Doesn't matter to me as long as I can read and post. Again, I so appreciate your concern and help. That is the good old KT spirit. Just remembered something. I'm getting emails re who has commented on My Page. It says I have one now from charleemo on the Testing thread. It does not show there, and leads to a page with a picture like the one on my itsuz (Sue_va) page. ??