Pardon me for my late entry into this discussion, but I am somewhat concerned that the correct diagnosis may have been missed. While I grow sapodilla, I have never seen any foliage with this type of marking. Since these trees are native to the Yucatan of Mexico and thereabouts, it is very hard for me to accept that this is only a sunburn issue. With all due respect to the other opinions, I would have to believe that sun is much stronger in the native range of this tree than any place here in the continental US. And that would be true without regard to actual air temperatures. Unless, this was a case of the plant being grown in less than full sun and then was put out in the full sun without being slowly acclamated. So, unless this later scenario is in fact the story, I think there may be something else going on here. The question is what? Might be a rust type of fungus or a viral issue. Or, I guess it could just be a case of hyper-pigmentation. I would spray with a fungicide and keep an eye on it to see if that helps at all. These trees are pretty resilient and I would think that the tree would out grow the problem in any case with time and good culture. Harry

Nice job Michoumonster! kaysd - I've found that it you can take a picture from straight on, it's much easier to photoshop. Love your luce di luna; looked for, lusted after, but couldn't find slabs I liked. The hood looks great IMHO. Best, oldbat2be

Amysrq you are right my inspiration photo is a lot darker. Mouse's Back in my kitchen looks like baby poo. I love the color though but, not in that room with that light. Hardwick White was pretty close too in my kitchen but, it went really khaki green and I was thinking it wouldn't blend with the Blue so I went down the lighter color path. I have seen that kitchen picture everywhere on almost every blog I read. Everyone loves that kitchen I think because it represents a "real" kitchen makeover that we all can relate too. Because no matter how much I want my kitchen to look like the hundreds of inspiration pics I have, unless I start over and have tons of money, it won't ever be. But that pic gives you encouragement that you can make over existing not so special cabinets and make them look fabulous. Thanks for the encouragement. You are right all the F&B colors are beautiful. I'm in love with that paint. I just painted my dining room walls, crown and base boards with Light Blue and it is gourgeous. The kitchen connects to it and that is why I pulled the light blue into the island. If you have any other suggestions throw them my way since it sounds like you are a fellow F&B fan. I have most every color in a sample pot. And I don't feel one bit guilty about it because I have been using them to paint furniture with.

Sigh. Yeah. It would be great. I can get 20' in the kitchen by demoing the laundry, I suppose, but I have to wash clothes sometime :) But I'm planning to take out the walk in pantry because at 3' it's pretty useless. Okay, seriously, the most cooking I ever did was in a tiny kitchen with a tiny fridge, three small, lower cabinets, one of which was the sink, and a shelf. There was also a tiny table and a two ring gas hotplate on a cart thing. It was rural, abroad and not much prepared food (i.e., box cookies, bottled salad dressing, etc.) to be had so I made *everything* except the bread. (Yes, you can bake on a gas ring!) The cupboards mostly held the dishes. The shelf had the spices and staples. I'm stopping because it's not a very interesting story. The point is that, yes, you can survive with a really small pantry. What you have to do is adapt the way you live. Is there someone else in the house (garage, barn, wherever) where you can store bulk items? Can you live without them? Can you store papergoods in an underused vanity cabinet? Do you use a lot of canned/packaged/bottled pantry items daily? Can you make do with only having one or two of any particular item, and go shopping more often? Figure out how you use your pantry, what you want to keep there, what you've been dreaming of keeping there since you've been dreaming of cooking in the new kitchen, and you'll know whether the size will work for you. One thing you can do if you need absolute storage rather than superorganized storage is go against the fashion and get plain shelves instead of pullouts. That'll give you an extra couple inches on each shelf. If you're not good at organizing cupboards, however, so that you always know where to lay your hands on the tomato paste and the kids know exactly where to find the peanut butter, pullouts might be more useful than those extra couple inches.