My wife and I went through the same sort of thing when we moved into our house in the Texas Hill Country North of Austin on Lake Travis, a 65 mile long artifical lake. Our house is delightful and meets our needs nicely, except for one thing — there is no gas available for the kitchen so we are stuck with electricity. We investigated propane as an alternative, but our lot is such that there is no convenient place for a tank.

Your kitchen looks very nice and very workable. My wife and I spent a lot of time designing ours, as I know you did, as well. We took masking tape and laid out floor plans on the floor to be sure there was enough “butt room” between the island and the stove to allow two people to be in the kitchn at once. My wife decided that she wanted cabinets that went all of the way up to the ceiling instead of starting part way down, as most do. She saw no reason to give up that much needed storage space. I wanted the counters to be an extra six inches deep. This is an idea I got from Craig Claiborn’s kitchen in the Hamptons. It allows me to keep mixers, food processors, and the like on the counters instead of stored away below. I always found it a hassle to have to retrieve them and then store them again when through. The convenince is GREAT. Likewise, our caqbinets use sliding shelves to allow acces to the back of the cabineet. This is a convenient feature for everyone, but particularly useful when you get older, as we are.

I assume you are still happy with your new kitchen, which is a very personal thing, in my opinion. Yours is certainly attractive and looks beautiful.

If you have any curiosity about mine, I can send you some amsll jpegs, off list, showing you how ours looks…

Regards…

Tom

Tom Spillman
Asst. Professor (retired!)
Information Technology

Kris

No drawers in a kitchen–whoa. That gives me hives just to think about, Kris! Good on you for now convulsing with frustration over it!

-=Bryian=-

PS-Monday good for you 3 for the movie???