May I ask what is the purpose of the two tan totes that your cages sit on? I notice there are washers on each, so you must have a dowel or something inside to keep the tote's sides from spreading? But what do you use those totes for other than raising the cages higher off the ground? I will be showing your comparison of Gurney and Burpee to my DH, who is not accustomed to tomatos growing as tall in 5b as they do in our 8b zone. Your plants look great, BTW.

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Kellie--Some of that bigger stuff can go in the pantry, but not all of it can. I want all my food stuffs in the pantry first and foremost. I hate walking out to the garage every day to get that cans, etc. There will be left over room in there for non-food items. But remember, I have a LOT of non-food items, many huge and awkward, to store too. Blfenton--I don't mind the cabs in some places. I will store the stuff I hardly ever use (like the huge commercial stock pot on the kitchen side and the punch bowl on the DR side) in the back of the cabs. They don't fit well in drawers. I don't care about digging to the back the two times a year I need those items. I'm sorry if I confused you about the drawers. I was thinking 3 shallow drawers across the top at 16.6" wide each. Then a doored cabinet under the two closest to the fireplace. The cavity inside the two doors would be all open to allow me to store bigger, wider things and move them around as my inventory changes. Then, under the right of those 3 drawers would be 2 deeper drawers, which makes a 3-drawer stack. Does that make sense? Frankly, right now I don't have everything at hand to measure. Nor do I have the time to lay every single item I have out to obsess over what will fit in what size of drawer and how deep that drawer should be. I have so many other decisions I need to make for the house that are holding us up from making progress. Island will be my prep area. I don't have enough storage there for all my prep stuff, so it will overflow back to the drawers flanking the rangetop and share space with my cooking supplies. The drawers to the right of the rangetop will also be cooking items and baking items as I moved the baking zone to the right of the range. Garbage is in a pullout at the north end of the island so it's usable for prep and cleanup chores. Here's my initial cabinet layout before the peninsula shrunk. I also decided on 4-drawer stacks flanking the rangetop instead of 3-drawer stacks. Thanks for the words about my uncle. He wanted to die, but that doesn't make it any easier for those of us left missing him.

I'm not a silgranite owner, just a person who has had a single bowl, double bowl AND a triple bowl sink and my preference is for a triple bowl. On GW, single bowl seems to reign supreme. In real life though, I've never met a person who preferred a single bowl to a double (or more) I think a lot of it comes down to personal dishwashing habits. Do you wash a lot of dishes by hand or are you a "throw everything in the dishwasher" type? Do you wipe down your counters and sink every night or are you the type that goes to bed with dirty dishes sitting in the sink? IMHO, I've noticed a commonality among those who strongly prefer a single sink and it is that 1. They seem to do more hand washing (which actually doesn't make sense to me at all) and 2. they clean their counters and sinks before going to bed. For me, as an "everything goes in the dishwasher" type and I regularly go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink, I prefer a partition (or two) so that I have an area to place the dishes waiting for the dishwasher and I still have an area to scrub/prep/rinse/wash hands etc. To me there is no "right" answer, it is entirely subjective and based on your own personal habits.