Hey, Fori, the repair guy called! At a reasonable time, and I was already gone to meet the cabinet maker and contractor. We had a very productive session. I'll call Mr. G. tomorrow. Meantime, I'm going to post about the cool factor in Appliances. I got 2" of countertop on both sides because the cabinet maker was making pretty frames around the ovens and Advantium. Instead there will be 1" nice frames. The ladder is too tall for the right of the ovens, and I wan't still more counter, so that's going to be a tall pullout like Gizmonike's, only with trays for spices, etc. The little cupboard over the ovens is only going to be about 8" tall anyway, so will have a flip up door rather than swing doors. Should be good for oven pieces. He can do rails and stiles with the bamboo, so the stemware cupboards in the butler's pantry will have inset glass (probably pebble) in the uppers and glass shelves. I think this will cure the bamboo forest problem, because it'll draw the eye away from the slabs. The only view I was ready to go all out Gumby for was standing in the prep area of the island. That, and my mother's jazzy hardware. :) No gumby ;( Glass would be too heavy and unsafe. There will be a message center with an 8" deep flip down writing surface in the center of the pegboard cabinet (on the right from the pantry. We also hashed out a lot of drawer depths, etc., and things look good. I came away feeling very good about the whole thing. I even might have found a top for the island. BTW, sorry for going off on the dye. I'm a fiber artist with respiratory issues so I took that literally. :D RIT's a different story. ;)

Thank you idrive65 for your reply. I just pulled up the carpet with a client who has begun a friend and we put a thin catalogue under the wood to be the floating material and it appears that there is only 1/8th difference in height of the two floors so I may need two T-Moldings and not one unless a reducer can be used there which is what I would prefer. I will call right now to see if I can order the 2 T-Moldings and the extra reducer and return them if I do not need them. I guess I need to know the length of the T-Molding. I will never order without a confirmed installer that I trust working with me again. Thank you CCoombs for letting me know that a good installer can work with me if I only order 7%. Now I am wondering if I should have more. I just stopped by my neighbor's home and she has reducers but her floors heights seem to be 1/4th inch difference. A few days ago her floors felt so hard to me since they were glued down. But today I took off my shoes and walked around barefeet on my tiles as I was measuring so when I was in socks on her floor, it no longer felt so hard and now I wonder if my idea of floating instead of gluing to be safe when my concrete floor was told to be dry, is a mistake and I should glue the floor? I don't want to seal the floor since it will add up the cost and time to get all the furniture out of all the rooms.

You can always divide drawers into smaller sections, but you cannot stretch drawers to accommodate bigger items. That said, I have a 21" beside my stove (simply because it came with a set I got at H4H that is beaded inset) and on the other side, a 15" next to a 36". I would never, ever waste my time or money on a 12" or smaller cabinet of any type. Where the 21" is, I originally had a 24" which was great. Pots and pans, wooden spoons, tops, pyrex and stuff. That cabinet was relocated. The 24" was very versatile, whereas the 21" is OK. My 36" drawer base is wonderful. I can keep all kinds of crap in them, from and pans, to paint cans, all kinds of stuff. If you're using Blum drawer glides, you have no drawer width difference between inset and overlay. I don't know where that came from. The front edge of the drawer glide is simply 7/8" back from the front of the face, whereas overlay can come out to the edge of the . However a 24" cabinet with only 19" drawers? Doesn't sound right.

There's a regular sized Fischer and Paykel fridge that is counter depth and affordable: the Active Smart. I have it in my very small kitchen and love it. I saved space with an 18" Bosch dishwasher which I also love! I just use it a bit more frequently than a full sized one. I researched fridges for quite a while. I didn't want to pay Subzero prices and was concerned about negative reviews for some of the other narrow width fridges. Plus I was concerned that creating a narrow area for the fridge might be a problem if such fridges ever were difficult to find. You could find photos of my small kitchen with these appliances if you do a search here for a thread that has 1923 kitchen with Breakfast Nook in the title.