In short, no. Insist on real chromed brass lines. Have matching shutoffs placed at floor level, in case they did get bumped loose. He either wants to do it quick & dirty, or he doesn't want to waste his time sourcing the right one, when he can pull the flex stainless ones off the shelf and they will fit, but be super unattractive and only be 3/8" dia. at best. The chrome ones will be 1/2" Casey

lynnski - you're right about not showing them in magazines! Never really thought about that. So this customized filler (notice i still have no idea what i'm going to do) i'm assuming i would have to actually take away from the counters and cabinets that's already there? seeing as the gap on each side is only about 1 1/2". Ahh yes, the island. The cabinets are merillat. I did not expect them to have fake wood looking pieces on the ends and on the island. Here's a before pic. Had i of realized this ahead of time i would've ordered the panles. again, didn't think about it. was too busy picking out carpet colors.. :) SO the cheapest fix i found was to have my dad order some oak wood veneer to slap on it. That was just done a day or two ago and i don't like it. Shhh.... The oak is a lot lighter than what's on my cabinets. it's not like he was able to hand select it.. it was shipped. Different lightings it doesn't look so bad. I do plan on putting seating at the island. The over hang is on the largest side and the end away from the fridge. How many barstools...? i have no idea. There's only two of us and only planning two kids. Plus, the barstools i like with the high fancy backs all are dark wook. I've yet to see a barstool with oak that wasn't all country looking. I also was planning on buying these from vandykes and having them put on the corners to spruce it up a bit. yeah the island is a whole nother thread in itself. People really put towel bars on their island?

Any particular reason you put the sink across from the range? There was a pretty exhaustive discussion of why not to do that in Small Kitchen & Dining Room thread, and also in the thread about what ranges are safest for kids (link below) (the title of that thread was sarcastic--the point was that kitchen design, not range choice, is what influences whether you have accidents/burns happening). The basic problem is that if the range and sink are across from each other, you are designing a kitchen in which accidents are waiting to happen because you force yourself to walk across the kitchen with hot water and hot and/or dirty pans. It's especially dangerous if you have pets or small kids or if pets/kids are ever guests in your house, but the danger is only reduced, not eliminated, if pets/kids are not an issue. A galley or modified galley like you're proposing is fine, but it is MUCH SAFER to put the sink and range on the same side, and the fridge/freezer on the opposite side. There is no safety advantage to putting the fridge on the same run as another fixture (i.e. sink or range), but there is a major advantage to putting the sink and range on the same run: you can empty your boiling pasta water, take pans to the sink after you use them, etc., without ever walking across the open floor. So there is no opportunity for kids or pets to get underfoot or in the way, or for you to slip, and drop hot things on kids/pets/the floor. Given your constraints, I would suggest putting the sink on the same run as the range and the wall oven on the fridge run. Putting a wall oven there is way less dangerous than putting the range there, first off because using a wall oven never involves pots of boiling water, and second because usually when people take things out of the oven the first thing they do is set them on the counter to cool--so stuff would come out of the wall oven and be set down beside it to cool; stuff would not be carried, hot, across the kitchen. But I think what would actually make the most sense here, since you have a longer run on the bottom, is to put DW, sink and range along the bottom, and move the fridge and freezer up to the top. They should probably go on the end where the wall oven is shown, so put either a pullout or a couple of feet of counter between them--from right to left it would go freezer, fridge, counter or pullout, wall oven, more counter. Here is a link that might be useful: Thread on burn-safe kitchen design

update finally, I can sell them for him. The price is more than 50%,,,, $6500 for the whole lot.....not sure how negotiable or if he is interested in breaking up the order. Perhaps yes on both. Pick up would be in Boston at my house as the cabinets have been there since the mess up. If there is any interest let me know. Not sure how the message system here works though, but I set up an e-mail shilohcabinets@gmail.com If there is any interest. I am going to put them on craigslist for him in a few weeks unless someone here wants them. They are taking up valuable storag space in my basement so come get them.