A few things to think about not related to specific plants is the amount of litter they produce on the patio. Lots of flowers means lots of petals and possibly leaves falling and lots of sweeping if you want it to stay clean. Also, you and your guests will be sitting right there with them, so plants that look good from afar, might not look that great close up all year long. They might look great when they are blooming, but not so great when they are out of bloom and can detract from the overall look. Another is the ultimate size of what you are planting - 30" depth is not alot. Most plants that grow to 3 feet tall, will likely be 3 feet wide or more and that would mean lots of pruning, or taking up lots of your hardscape area. I don't know how tall your knock outs are now, but expect them to get quite large, and will probably hang over your patio alot unless you severely prune them. That might be OK, but something to think about. Some nice plants that look good all the time for your backbone, and then some pocket color to break up the sameness. Small nandinas give you beautiful winter color in sun, always look good, and don't drop alot of litter. Rosemary looks good all the time, and blooms are small so the litter won't be so in your face. Purple fountain grass gives great color - good for background or at the end of a bed. Liriope for a border - easy care. Moss verbena is good. Stella d'Oro daylilies. Summer phlox. A few bulbs like jonquils for winter, oxblood lilies for fall could be interplanted. Blue Shades ruellia is a great ground cover. Plumbago are gorgeous, but I think our growing season isn't long enough in DFW to get a good show after the first year when you buy that beautiful blooming plant in the nursery, and then it barely blooms the next year (that's been my experience anyway). But try 1 or 2 in the mix, and maybe you'll have better luck. A couple of tropical hibiscus, but they are annuals and would have to be replanted every year. Pieris never did well for me - it might be a heartbreaker. Part of the fun is trying and failing and trying again, but I know that can get expensive, so having learned so many expensive lessons, I now plan carefully, and expect most of the information on the plant tags (especially mature size) to be outright wrong!

Are you planning to install one of those built in machines that hooks into the plumbing and all you do is periodically add coffee, like the miele? A friend of mine had one installed and I was wild to get one, the coffee was fantastic. But my cautious DH insisted on waiting for a year (until we were ready for another round of Improvements) and in that time our friends' machine was serviced 10 times . . . .they ended up using a regular nice coffeemaker they had before. In the meantime I went back to work and we did less entertaining . . . and the punchline of this story is that we got a keurig one cup after trying a few other brands and absolutely adore it. We have lots of types of coffees and teas AND it makes killer hot chocolate. We got the carousel holder for the k-cups and now have an incredible variety of coffees available by the cup. We buy the half and half mini-moos that don't need refrigeration and keep them in a quimper container on the counter . . . both of us like hot coffee and chilled cream takes that hot edge off too quickly. I highly recommend at least trying one, as this would expand the number of beverages you could make in your master cafe :) As for materials, I would definitely use granite or whatever you have in your master bath for the counter. Rather than carry spoons back and forth to the kitchen I would use wooden stirrers, just like those in Starbucks. And drawers are always more useful than any other kind of storage, so I would have at least a few in your cabinetry. Cannot wait to see the pictures! As for materials,

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I'm going back and forth on adding in some small streaks of the green and bits of silver. Here's what I'm thinking as of now: 1) Base coat - Color match to the beige/light gray in the pillow that comes with set (see picture of forest green comforter I added above.) 2) Add a FEW streaks ("strie"- the vertical lines), of the green and light gray (or whatever the "beige/light gray" pillow color is). I would add maybe 1 streak of each every 7 - 8 inches. I probably wouldn't even be using a teaspoon of each color for the entire wall. I doubt it would even show in the pictures, but when one is in the room, they would see a very subtle lines of the green and light gray. And if I even change the comforter, I could just paint over the green and light gray streaks. 3) Add the metallic paint (something light and "pearly") as the final coat on the headboard wall. 4) Paint the rest of the walls in the base coat (the beige/ light gray color matched from the pillow.) I really like the "drama" of the forest green comforter against the light walls. I also love that large gold metallic vase in @Molly 's picture. Thinking of doing something like that in a pewter. Now just have to find a massive vase that doesn't cost $300+ dollars.