We have 3 doors, 9' wide each. I didn't look hard for a 18' wide single door, most are 16', but that could've swayed me back to a single big door. If you get the 9' wide singles and have trouble pulling in or backing out, you should consider taking mass transit. As for the other reasons for one big door, I completely understand the benefits, but none of them applied to us. We also made the garage extra wide and deep. 25' wide for the double bay area, and a hair under 25' deep. Our third garage bay is a stand alone 11' by 21'. 25' deep allows for a very large SUV and my garage cabinets/workbench to co-exist. 25' wide is pretty good for two sets of doors to open, but a wheelchair would be an issue on all but one side. Now, if I can just get all the junk put away in the cabinets so you can find all three parking spots.

Oh, Marcolo, that picture makes me laugh because I had been teasing DH that our daughter's play kitchen would be a perfect color scheme for a 1940's house. He just gave me that look. I know exactly what you mean by putting in the wrong decade and I agree with you for the most part, but then our neighborhood houses' original finishes were I think closer to the '30's than the '40's (maybe the builder was using up stuff left over from before the war) -- though I don't really know. All the kitchens I've seen on the street have been redone, or at least repainted, at some point in between and the new ones all look very much like 2000-2010 kitchens. Granite as far as the eye can see. Christine and mama_goose, thank you for the input! I've looked at Barker Door and I will check out DoorStop too. I will have to go sniff some Cabinet Coat and see if it would work for the resp-sensitive family members. Unfortunately (or not), we don't have a garage or other separate enclosed space for painting. Mama_goose, I remember your kitchen and it is just charming. I love how you have made it all your own. I believe our house's original cabinets were much like yours except with slab doors, from what DH tells me (he was the one who replaced them with frameless melamine in the late 80's).

You could paint less than the entire island base -- perhaps not paint the sturdy wood post legs. There are other shades of blue that might (visually) "wear" better over time such as a darker steel blue/gray -- my personal favorite https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/35/cf/2b35cf6ca31617f2fd708fb482596b98--tom-howley-kitchens-tom-howley-kitchen-grey.jpg a medium blue that isn't as flat/muted as the one in your pic https://cdn.decorpad.com/photos/2017/08/23/blue-kitchen-island-with-gray-and-gold-barn-pendants.jpg a dark, bold cobalt blue http://dinahollandinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/06-hbx-midnight-blue-kitchen-island-boszhardt-0608-xln.jpg a more tourquois blue http://hgtvhome.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/hgtv/fullset/2013/7/5/1/original_Elizabeth-Swartz-colorful-kitchen-red-pendants-over-island.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.1280.960.suffix/1400981479805.jpeg if your cabinets are light wood, you might consider a much more pale shade of blue that coordinates with the blue in a light fixture https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/e1/28/49e12849541f17065d03ab66d03fdf9b.jpg ... perhaps you could chose two or three and get your husband to choose from those.

Thanks, all. Unfortunately, it can't be stripped and stained (my first choice), as the inserts have been replaced with some non-wood stuff by my dad. The door is from 1932, and it's not in great shape, so he had to replace that wood years ago. His fix was probably not the way he should have gone, but... The stucco is white, not pink, thank goodness -- I took the picture later in the day. The stairs are too uneven to tile. We'll stick with the dark garnet, or at least we'll try it out. I got a sample today, and if it's too much, he has loads of that green paint to put it back to how it was.