I didn't get these plans until February 23. These are the first plans that the kitchen design at Pro build sent me. It too him a long time to get the plans to me and they are amazingly underwhelming. He did not use any of my ideas and frankly, this is the kitchen that I do not want. I am going to send him the list and see what he comes up with. Or, I guess it is time to find another designer.

A list of things not included in Jeff's original drawing.

1. pull out garbage and re-cycle bin

2. shelves on wall 1 to the left of stove

3. use as many drawers for lower cabinets as possible

4. open shelves for microwave and toaster oven with drawers underneath

5. metal exhaust hood over stove

6. temporary shelving around old standard sized fridge (space for french door fridge)

7. one or two double hung 3 over 1 windows over sink that are counter height

8. "slot" in lower cabinets for a step stool

9. a cook book shelf

I would also like to maximize counter space.

The double pantry looks too monolithic and at the same time fussy with four doors. Could there be two wider single- door pantries with a small coffee station in the middle.

Apart from my rather off dream (which I am not sure how it got on this blog) I have been quiet about renovations.

Finally, I am looking at cabinets and working with a kitchen designer. I hope to post a first design next week or so but I wanted to remember and record my first (and pretty easy) choices.

The was built in 1929, has lots of arches (Almost 1500 sq ft through out the house on two floors), and all the woodwork is painted white. The whole first floor is painted a grey/green which I will probably repeat (I wanted a deeper color than what is one my walls now, but that will come later). It is easy on the eyes and very calming for me. The floors are wood and will be stained a dark brown and refinished when the kitchen is redone. I decided to go with white (Pearl is the color) cabinets and chose Omega Cabinets, their semi-custom Dynasty line, with Marion inset doors and slab drawers.

Basic door

Pearl is my color choice

Here are pearl cabinets with a dark floor and dark green counter top which generally gives the feeling of what I am going after. The soapstone would be black with green veins.

Corian color that I like. I am looking only at light Corian shades because I hear the dark is hard to keep clean. Of course, if I can go with soap stone, it will be dark.

I plan to use a lot of bottom draws and wonder a bit about the look of slab drawers. I wanted to use soap stone but also looked a corian as an alternative.