What is your current aisle width to the island? This is important. If you are comfortable reducing that width everything else is doable. We have a full depth Samsung french door that is in a run of base and wall cabinets that are pulled forward to match the depth of the refrigerator. The added bonus for us is that while the cabinets are pulled forward the counter depth is an extra 6" deep along this run so we added appliance garages along the whole length under the upper cabinets. The stand mixer, the toaster, the food processor, the bread machine, etc. are all housed in there but we still have enough functional room in front of the appliance garages---about 18"---to use for a sandwich and breakfast making area. So much depends on your actual measurements and how you intend to use the space. Good luck.

Staging and adding color to curb appeal would go a long way. It looks like you got the decluttering thing down, but maybe a little too much--some rooms are a little too spartan and thus not very welcoming. My first impression after looking at the photos was: -The kitchen was updated, but the color and style clash with the table and there are no stools at the island. These things tell me that I will need to repaint either the kitchen or the rest of the house right off the bat to make them flow better. The table (while it would be going with you & not staying) gives the wrong feel to the otherwise modern kitchen & the green tablecloth has to go. The absence of stools at the island make me wonder if there is not enough room for the stools and the table in that space. The chandelier & light fixture don't look like they were updated (the pots hanging from the ceiling draw your eye upward so you definitely notice the lights)--check out the big box stores for some affordable, easy to install updates. Love the window treatments and that wonderfully large window! -Living & Dining rooms both feel very spartan and cold in the photos. Pulling the curtains back will help bring in more natural light and make it feel more welcoming & open. Is the dining room table centered in the room or pushed off center toward the window? It seems cramped at the window end which to me says the room is small and family dinners will be elbow to elbow. As mentioned above, too many different paint colors--the yellow doesn't do much for me & the white or pale blue in the living room is very cold. Framed prints on the walls and an area rug would go a long way to warming the rooms up. -Bedrooms need warming up too--more framed prints & an area rug needed. Slide the bed in the master over so its more centered in the room. The way it is now, it appears cramped. It looks like there is a tray ceiling in there too--an off center bed is negatively accentuated in this situation. The green curtains need to go and be replaced with neutral colored ones and again, pull them back to let in natural light to give an open welcoming feel. -Masterbath needs some warm welcoming touches too. Framed prints, some candles, strategically drape a folded towel along the edge of the tub, add a pretty container of bath salts to the tub corner, add a pretty window treatment to the window above the tub vs. the plastic mini-blinds. Warm, fuzzy, yet tasteful bath rugs will help too. The walls need some color. Make it feel like a spa environment-somewhere potential buyers would like to retreat to after a long day at work. Don't forget a handtowel on the towel ring! -Love the family room--maybe an area rug...that's it. -J&J bath--looks good. Add a framed print or two, a window treatment, fuzzy warm yet tasteful bath rug & hang the hand towel up. Choosing a nice neutral color of towel throughout all the baths would help too. Something in a fluffy white or beige to give that spa like feel would be good. -Laundry looks great--open the curtains. -Nursery looks great--maybe a framed print or two. -Exterior: Deck needs new coat of paint. The front looks a little tired. Adding some spots of color will help the curb appeal--a tall fat planter with colorful flowers on both corners of the porch, some colorful flowers planted in the beds, maybe a couple tall plants under the porch lights. another planter or two with plants and flowers on the back deck would help make it seem more welcoming too. It seems like you were working on updating the house and managed to get to the kitchen, family room, laundry, nursery & J&J bath. The rest appears to have not been updated since the house was built. While I love antiques, the furniture in the unupdated rooms with this scenario does not help. The obvious brass fixtures in the master bath scream 1980s and most if not all potential buyers are wondering how hard will it be to update them. You definitely have 3 vastly different styles going on in the house which can cause a major disconnect with potential buyers. If you were to repaint the kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, master bath & living room to more neutral colors (similar to family room & J&J bath) + update brass fixtures + add warming touches as outlined above to rooms for staging + exterior color and I think you could probably relist for the $290K in the spring and walk away with around $260-$250K. My BIL is a real estate agent and when we sold our house with him he even said not to tell him the absolute lowest price we were willing to take for the house. I can confidently say that repainted & staged well (including replacing a couple light fixtures, new comforter for DS's room, new bathroom stuff, quick exterior spruceup by adding color) when we sold our house. We listed the house $10K higher than the exact house down the street that sold a couple weeks earlier for a higher than average price for our neighborhood. We had an offer in 2 days and ended up with a bidding war between two potential buyers that ended on day 5 on the market. Trust me, potential buyers need to be able to see themselves living in your home and driving up to your home everyday--your staging makes all the difference. Good luck to you!

Of course the photoshopped version of wrapping the stone is appealing. But let's look at the actual construction requirements of such a project. If the stone has a 2" dimension, and you have typical frame and drywall construction on the side walls, the framing for those walls will be only 5/8" under the drywall surface. In addition, the framing is probably located at the front of that corner, right behind the stone. If you try to cut the drywall back far enough to fit in the stone, you won't have a framing member behind the new drywall edge, which you can't do. So you would have to go into the wall and reframe the corner (yow!), which presents the problem of supporting the existing edge of whatever the stones are attached to. Then unless you did some fancy reframing deeper inside the corners, the stones on the sides would present their edges to the front of the room all the way down. And unless you reframed the corners at depth, you'd either have to stop the stone where your current cabinetry dies into the original face of the stone, which means the stone facade would be narrower on both sides from that point down, or you'd have to tear out and completely replace your cabinetry, because the dimensions of the doors would have to be changed to make them equal across the face. I fear you'd lose more in looks than you'd gain, and at great expense. That gray paint is starting to sound better and better, isn't it...?

I absolutely love the look of glass shelves in front of the window, and you can build a bracket that the glass slides into so you can remove the shelves when you need to clean the windows to make them more accessible. Also, my husband is toying with the idea of copper pipe run between the upper cabinets on either side of the hood, with hooks to hang utensils from. You could also do this under open shelving or glass shelves to hang coffee cups, utensils, pot holders, etc from, or suspend a spice rack ( I think I've seen a hanging spice rack at Ikea). You'll still get lots of light from the windows and not have to alter them, but it makes that dead space in front of the windows more useful in a kitchen with limited storage. If my kitchen window got as much light as yours seems to, I'd be lining up little pots of fresh herbs on a glass shelf. Not sure what your colors are, but I found really cute copper and teal (my accent colors) owl planters on Amazon that will look amazing with the dark grey cabinets and white quartz countertops I'm planning. Also got some large jewel toned blue glass jars to use for storage on open shelves. And a teal rectangular clay planter to stand rolled up dish towels in on a shelf.