It has been really fun reading all these comments: I'm glad so many people shared their ideas! Please note that I never said I didn't like white! I love white flowers, and have quite a weakness for white roses--'Mme. Plantier', 'Mme. Jules Bouché', 'Mme. Hardy', loving them for their great purity, coolness, and refinement. It was the question of how to use them that I was commenting on. White goes wonderfully well with cool colors, as in Alicia's photos above, and as in linrose's first photo (and all your photos are beautiful!). I love white in dark places and at dusk, as others have said: I used to have a stand of mostly white foxglove in the shade of my apple tree which was quite wonderful, and for a long time white was the only color I could tolerate in hyacinths--I still can't stomach the red violet kinds. I love pale narcissus, pale magnolias, mature pear trees with their massive white bloom. I like impure whites, along with other pale colored roses, to relieve the heaviness of more strongly colored varieties; I just think the balancing act requires a nice judgement which I don't always observe in gardens. I've certainly thought before, in a theoretical fashion, about how to design a white garden: the delicate and varied whites of roses would be wonderful with various deep greens of box and yew, and with the silver and steel and blue hues of mediterranean aromatic plant foliage. But there are ways to use white well and other ways that, for me at least, don't work, and that's what I focused on. About the Rosa foetida. Luanne, your roses are absolutely gorgeous, but I don't think they'd work: it's pure vs. impure colors again. Nor white. I like Jeri's combination too, but R. foetida is far brighter, far more intense, than the yellow rose in the picture. My own idea would be the same...what? hue? of yellow but paler, like in the paint store when you use the same combination and ratio of pigments but at lesser intensity. Same for the green; and in a different visual arrangment: that is, stripes versus the blobs of the roses, like an iris with variegated foliage, or perhaps a perennial with tiny blooms dotted through its foliage. Or a small woody plant with variegated leaves. Or one with a basal rosette and flower spikes. In violation of my own stated theory that pure and impure colors don't mix, I'm tempted to try a companion plant with pale flowers of yellowish cream--I can't quite visualize the color, but the thought is lurking. It's almost February! Spring is getting closer!! Thanks to everyone for sharing their thoughts. Melissa

I can go into the Firefox preferences, under the Content tab, go to the 5th "button" down on the right and change the color to a background color I personally find more soothing (and change font style and size, too, in the previous window), and UNCHECK the box that says "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above." The problem is that it applies my choices to ALL my open browser pages...not just GW. If I could just affect GW and move on like normal, that would be great. I could also minimize my window until the white outside the vertical lines disappears and stare at my Lilly wallpaper. Or I could open up two windows side-by-side and multitask through GW!! Think of the possibilities, GW...double the ad play!!!!! No, not on my screen(s), my adblocker still works...for now. It's like certain HD TV shows that don't automatically rescale and fit the screen. You get those black bars outside the picture. I rather like the crisp, clean look, just PLEASE continue the top banner's grass green (or some other color) all the way down to the brown bottom banner to tone down that white! Thanks!

elizpiz- The island and the base cabs where the soapstone sink is are painted a subtle green which sometimes seems almost grey. To make the transition to the white frig panels and to make the area under the speed oven seem more furniture-like, we painted the drawers the same green as the cabs and the background the same white as the frig and the uppers. I wanted to make the little drawer under the speed oven special and had planned on making it the sole drawer painted orange. Unfortunately, I didn't get my knobs in time to match so I made that the only drawer with a different piece of hardware. Also, you are seeing the library where the cookbooks are. I'll have my husband take more of a close-up so you can see the books. I'm a sick, sick puppy. And no I probably can't get rid of anything but I'd be happy to have you take a look. newbieremodeler - The cabs are custom. I based the sizes on what I needed to put there. I'm attaching my plan to give you an idea. I not only mixed slab and inset but some cabs are framed and some are frameless. The cooking side of the island is frameless and the side with the doors are framed. My cabinet maker did not love me. a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42398147@N05/4604516040/" title="0001dR by Carem2, on Flickr"> Pretty obsessive, huh?

as breenthumb said you must have the easylist along with adbolck plus on your firefox to be rid of all of the ads. you can get the easylist here EasyList once you have ad block plus on your firefox simply click on that link and select add easylist to adblock plus. Anytime there is an ad that is visible there will be somewhere along it's edge a little pop up tab that says block just click that and you can then block that type of ad also, this is a feature of ad block plus. Thanks for posting the actual screen shot of this paint ad, upon seeing it, it is very obvious that it is a part of the ad and the options to select your colors is also a part of the ad, one of the most obnoxious ad's I have ever seen. So apparently firefox, adblock plus and easylist do stop this ad since I had no idea what it looked like. When things like this crop up it is always most helpful to give every detail about it so that not as much guessing has to take place in trouble shooting. Once the screen shot was shown it was quite obvious, but for those of us that do not see them we had no idea it was part of a paint ad till that info was finally provided.