Fishes: Yes, we do have an eating area. It is narrow, only about 10' wide so we are placing our table with chairs there with a banquette against the wall. There is also a basment door and the door to the back staircase in that area so wall space is limited. These old houses are charming but can be complicated. I am toying with adding glass front display cabinets above the banquette so that I can get my display somewhere. I have a large collection of blue and white transferware that is displayed on shelves in our soon to be gone butler's pantry :(. With the lack of wall cabinets in the L I think having display is tough unless we put it in the sit down eating area of the kitchen. Can't wait until I can get my husband to show me how to post our layout so that people can see what I am trying to explain. I agree that your baking area more than makes up for the lack of wall cabinets. I am going to try to get out to dutchwood next week for a visit and a better idea of all the possible cost and upcharges.Have you gone there yet?

Hi, I redid my kitchen as a DIY in '06-07. I am a very experienced carpenter with lots of woodworking equipment, and I do build some cabinets. I did not have the kind of shop space to do en entire set of cabinets, nor the time. I first developed the design, and found that Conestoga would customize the door styles to get something like a door I loved from Omega Dynasty line. I ordered an upper and lower door sample (different styles) and was so impressed by the precision and great condition they arrived in. I received my unfinished cabinet package (99 boxes on 9 pallets)in a little over two weeks. The shipping from PA to WV was free, it even came on a Conestoga semi trailer (they do their own delivery for large orders, ship UPS for small ones). The boxes go together easily. The finishing was obviously a lot more trouble than the assembly. I used old-fashioned mortise butt hinges for my inset doors, which have no adjustability and require total precision of fit. There are non-mortise hinges that allow some adjustment, but I wanted a particular look. I wouldn't foresee that painting them would be a particular problem for you, if you ask in the paint forum you can get some good advice; apparently there is a new type of paint called "Cabinet Coat" that lays down smooth as glass and in impervious to stains and wear. I have seen pictures of new woodwork painted with it and it's very impressive. To paint doors it's better to do them off the cabinets, and you need a vast amount of room to lay them all out. I stained, and did some steps (like a 7-step finish) off, and final finishing on the cabinets. I finished the moldings etc., off, and touched up after nailing them up. The cabinet doors come ready-to-stain, the faceframes need a good scraping/sanding to remove the 100-grit cross-grain sanding marks. You will be getting cabinets nearly as good as Dynasty, Plain & Fancy, or Crown Point, (not as good as Kennebec) for a literal fraction of the cost. One final caveat, nothing is returnable unless damaged, you will get what you ordered, so go through the list with a fine-tooth comb and make sure everything works together. The upper cabinets: My Glass-door inset wall cabinets: My full-overlay base cabinets: Inset hinge detail: It's quite an undertaking, but great sweat equity, or how to end up with nicer cabinets that you would want to buy, if you are in my income bracket. Casey

According to Cabinet Joints website who sells Conestoga "as well as a custom color palette designed with the help of Sherwin Williams. The result is a collection of literally hundreds of paint colors for you to choose from!" . Here's a link to that particular page: https://www.cabinetjoint.com/woods-finishes/galleries/ . On that page you can click on the View Prism Collection link which has a pdf of 35 pages of colors(about 1,680 colors). You can also buy Conestoga unfinished.

We ordered these from Build.com for our remodel. They look great, and arrived quickly, and in the box they seem to be decent quality. Price is very good for this look -- a clean modern inset shaker. I am not finding much in the way of reviews, however, so wanted to see if anyone else had experience with this brand.