I can only assume that these are gone - Would you please let me know if by some trick of fate you still have them? Thanks Much, Michele

missymar-We are also building a Frank Betz-the Kensington Park. My kitchen is 13'4"X 10'6" and calls for a 2 X 4 island. I too have debated about this and wondered if it may be tight in the aisles. It seems the aisles may be 44" if I calculate right. I want the island for landing/prep space as well. The island also seems a little in the way when I think about cooking-navigating around it. I am thinking of getting an island on lockable wheels with a butcher block top in roughly the same dimensions so I can move it around where I want it to be. Closer to the sink when prepping, closer to the fridge when loading, unloading and out of the way when I need it moved. Here is the kitchen of the house we are building in a recently finished home, we will move the ovens here as well, different from the plan: We are going to have a wet bar-just havent decided the exact location. I think it will be under the stairs beside the breakfast nook. This will be kids juice boxes, yogurt, cheese etc to move their stuff out of my fridge. The other option is to put it where the kitchen counters kick back around and shows a desk in the plan. Here is my 1st floor plan:

A little history. The noodle board vs stove board:. The noodle board is used in homes where pasta is traditional. The stove board is used in homes where summer kitchens are common (summer kitchen is a kitchen outside of the house, so you don't heat up the hs. in the summer). For those of us where neither pasta or summer kitchens are part of the culture we call this the pastry board. It moves around to many surfaces, stove, table, dry sink etc. And we always had a marble piece to fit it so we could do butter pastry. Once we had electricity (1959) we kept it permanently on the old wood cooking stove, since the new electric stove was hidden in a tiny pantry (we weren't really ready). So, don't feel bad if you don't know what a noodle board is, your ancestors probably didn't eat pasta much. I use a noodle rack myself because it's takes up less space. My pastry board is well over 100 yrs old, is 30 inches wide, all one slab of wood! It hangs from a square nail attached to my possum belly kitchen queen (now coffee station). I use it as my grand mother did, and love that it softens my cooktop.

This is one garden, I have two others. One garden has more tomatoes, peppers, squash and pumpkins. There is another that I planted 45 raspberry plants and also sweet corn. I pull the landscape cloth up and replace again in the Spring.