I had a different picture in my mind of a metal smith class. One of my son's and I once took a blacksmithing class together. It was fun figuring out how that was done. Yours sounds fun too. We are having a gathering of friends for the first night of Sukkot. It will start at my friend's house and move to mine. Last year, we had a theme of Jewish food from North Africa and India. My friend is vegetarian so we do it as a dairy meal and it was fun exploring different Jewish holiday foods (and not long after our cooking forum North African virtual dinner). This year we are doing Italian Jewish cuisine. We will have the appetizers at her house: Challah (which my husband is making) and wine of course. She is doing olives, artichokes and mushrooms, and caprese salad. I'm making buricche which are small filled turnovers with an Italian puff pastry - I made the pastry last night and it is waiting in the fridge. The filling will be butternut squash. Also Fagiolini Conditi, a green bean salad. At our house we will have soups and desserts (the weather has cooperated by turning cool). She is doing a vegetable one and I'm making Zuppa di Cecci. Also farro salad. And crusty bread. She is making some kind of cookie. I'm making pears with port and stilton (not Italian, but I'd picked that out for Sukkot when Sharon posted the recipe before we chose our theme and it sounds so good - and a fall fruit dessert is so Sukkot). Also amaretti (we have enough dessert but the butternut squash filling calls for some crushed amaretti and I couldn't find any at the store so I'm making a batch). And a small panforte that I brought back from Italy. Haven't spent much time planning the drinks. Wine of course. Also planning on serving hot apple cider - a last minute addition because it has turned so cold in the evenings - also doesn't quite fit the theme but I figured people would want something warm to drink.

Iheart, I wish I could display the picture. You'd stop worrying that your couches might be too deep. C&F has never done the oversize furniture thing, I'm sure, but the old couches shown are by current styles here definitely "over-stuffed" and also nice and deep--the kind I like to snuggle into with my feet pulled up. The overall effect makes an asset of the smallish dimensions. My vote on your selections would be to vary the masses and to some degree shapes of sofas versus chairs. You're not copying a picture, of course, but for what it's worth that has two matching skirted sofas; however, between the solid masses of the sofas is a light-scale coffee table, so it doesn't look as if they're packing a cargo container. They used two different chairs angling in. One is a fully upholstered armchair that could hide a swivel base and the other is much lighter scale, with seat and back upholstered, but open at the bottom. It does make sense that what you put between the sofas might help determine whether to go skirted or open on them. Wish I could rearrange whenever I want. I didn't break DH in early enough, and he complains when he discovers something's not where it "should be." If I ask him to help, he grumbles and then has to live with it grudgingly for a while before deciding he doesn't really care one way or the other. :)

What about a sectional with one piece along the 13' wall and the other piece facing the fireplace. A square upholstered ottoman (for comfort or extra seating) would fit nicely. Put a sofa table behind the section facing the FP- that will give you a place to drop your keys coming in from the garage. There's plenty of room on the 10' wall for 2 nice sized chairs w/ a table between, and a table beside the sofa by the FP. My room is similar in size and shape and I have an 8' sq slipcovered sectional that's great b/c we eat in there and the SCs are easy to launder. When do you move in?

Actually, with today's refrigerators, you can fit a 36" wide counter-depth refrigerator in a 36.5" or less space. I strongly advise against sizing for a refrigerator less than 36" wide. Refrigerators today are starting to standardize at 36" width x 72" tall. While narrower/shorter refrigerators are still out there, they are starting to become less common. Every once in a while we get a panicked request for help finding a decent refrigerator that fits in a smaller than 36"x72" space. 6" pullouts vary in usable space. With framed cabinets you lose the wall frame width, with frameless you only lose the cabinet wall thickness. In some framed lines, the 6" cabinets are frameless. Sink bases are one of the least useful cabinets for storage, so getting one no bigger than necessary is recommended The reason I put a 6" pullout to the right of the sink (as you look at the layout), is so you have a bit of space to help avoid knocking things off the edge of the counter. I didn't want to make it too wide, though, b/c it takes away from the prime prep space b/w the range & prep sink. If you think you would be OK with only about 2 or 3 inches b/w the edge of the sink and the edge of the counter, you could make the 27" cab on the other side 33". No, a range will not heat up your trash pullout. Ovens in ranges are very well insulated (that's also why it's OK to put a refrigerator next to a wall oven - the insulation is that good.) As to the right of the DW, there isn't room. IIRC, you need a 15" cabinet for a single-bin and 18" for a double-bin (I have an 18" double-bin that's a perfect size - trash in front bin, recycling in the back bin). The problem with a trash pullout by the cleanup sink is that far more trash (& recyclables) are generated while prepping and cooking than while cleaning up - and for a much longer period of time. I made the mistake of putting my trash pullout in the Cleanup Zone - across a 6' aisle from my Prep & Cooking Zones - and it's my biggest regret! If I had it to do over again, it would be in the Prep Zone - no questions or doubts about it! BTW...I really, really dislike trash cans/pullouts under the sink - they're much smaller than regular bins, if they overflow the trash gets all over other items under the sink, you have to stoep aside to use them while prepping at the sink, they seem to be much more "stinky" than a separate trash pullout, and you usually do not have room for both a trash and recycle bin - very important today. Yes, I did reduce the peninsula width. There would not be a wide enough aisle b/w the DW and the peninsula if it stayed the same length. Hmmm....There's a pony wall there as well? That means that you cannot have that 27" cabinet facing the Family Room b/c the pony wall is in the way. In addition, the peninsula will need to be deeper to allow for the pony wall + sufficient counter overhang (15"). Can you get rid of the pony wall altogether? I recommend the counter be all one height - it's so much more useful at one height...room to spread out for large projects (craft, cooking, etc.), for staging food, etc.