I was going to say panels, too. I don't see white being that great with the cream and I think the stainless might fight the wonderful copper...Unless you maybe include some stainless accents in your backsplash, maybe also on your hood, to tie things together. Have you chosen a range? You could go for some color or cream if you went with BlueStar or LaCanche with color choices...Maybe they have copper?

I personaly dont have any except an old plow in the middle of a rose bush. I do know what you are talking about though. When we drive up highway 83 to Bismarck there is one of those yards in one of the small towns. It just looks like a bunch of junk, It is so cluttered you cant really see anything. There is another one in the next town over, everybody tells me it used to look nice but now there is just too much stuff in it and I agree with them. In Bismarck there is a house on one of the major streets the we call the GRISWALD HOUSE FROM CHRISTMAS VACATION. They put up so many christmas lights on this little house with this little yard it looks hideous.

There are some great older threads about silgranit sinks. There are a minority of people who are not happy with them, but those who love them seem really, really to love them. It's notable to me when a critical mass of people are that in love with a product. I ended up staying with stainless steel. The simple reason is that I have always had stainless steel sinks, so that is what I already know. I'm not dissatisfied with SS for any of the reasons people mention disliking the material, so a switch to another material would be a decision to solve a problem I don't feel I have. I also like the fact that SS sinks dent but you are not going to break one, and its comparatively non-reactive. However, if SS had annoyed me on some count - as it seems that you are ready to be done with the water spots - I think the virtues of silgranit would have been compelling. I have little squares of white and biscuit silgranit I that I cruelly assaulted. My observation that it is very easy to mark up the samples with silverware - it leaves a gray mark. But those marks also lift off easily with a magic eraser. Contrary to some reports, I did succeed in inflicting actual scratches (as in grooves) on the samples, but that took a knife and an actual effort by me to try to cut the sample. In actual practice, I can't imagine anyone will actually saw away on their sink with a knife. Also, as the color goes all the way through the material, the cuts I did inflict wouldn't be that noticable. It would be the kind of thing I would notice, but someone else would walk right past and not see. In regard to large single bowl, I just opened my new single bowl SS sink this morning. Ho boy - If you don't already have one, a 30" single bowl really *is* pleasantly large! I think I am smitten!

Thermofoil is different than the new high pressure laminate choices being brought out by so many manufacturers. Thermofoil from some manufacturers is better than it used to be. It yellows less, and peels less. From other manufacturer’s, not so much. As a whole it’s reserved for the bottom of the market, and HPL is taking it’s place, HPL is a superior choice in many respects to wood. It’s far more durable and stable. It’s just not as cheap as Thermofoil. It’s in a par with 90% of the cost of painted wood. It just wears better.