YAY! Pictures of the cabinets

Maple with Corian

It wasn't my first choice to have a white counterop, in fact, I'm a green kinda gal, but shoot, I'm not going to argue with Corian, for pete's sake.  The sink is a single basin sink, again, not my first choice and in fact I had already bought a Kohler cast iron sink (sheesh was that thing heavy! nearly tipped over the cart) BUT what I really like is that there is no lip over the edge of the counter where crummies like to hide and that keeps ripping out pieces of my sponge when I clean it, although that is another place where toothbrushes rule! LOL.  But Corian won't stain like laminate counterops and its pure clean through so it can be sanded unlike laminate, so I think I'll be happy because I'll be able to keep it white.

This U-shaped piece did challenge me in how I was going to design the kitchen-dining room but I think I have a good solution.  We'll see if I can't get that file in  the proper format to upload.

If you look at the row of uppers and lowers at the back of this picture you'll see a "thing" in the middle of the lower cabinets.  That's a warming oven.  It can be high or low and humid or dry.  Huh!  I bet that'll be really nice once I get the hang of it.  Maybe a person could make yogurt or tempeh in it, ya think?

We didn't get the dishwasher (silver thing in the middle of the "U") but that's no big deal, I haven't lived with one before so I won't miss it.  My mom thought that was odd that I didn't care for a dishwasher, but *shrugs* I dunno, its no biggie, not even for Thanksgiving.  I simply wash dishes as they get dirty and in no time at all the kitchen is as clean as before... *cough* :-)

This row of cabinets holds built in ovens which we were able to buy.  Gerald's excited about those.  He likes the look of built in stove ("U") and ovens.  Again, never lived with 'em.  I do remember when I was young that we had this fantastic cookstove, SIX burners and two large ovens with windows.  Gosh I wish I had something like that, but here I'll have a cook top with four burners in the "U" and two ovens, so that's pretty darn close to the same thing.  The cook top has closed burners, just like my current stovetop, which is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned BUT the burner tops and the guards are grey.  Again, not what I would of chosen if I bought new.  I've been struggling with that now for the past several years and ugh, its impossible to keep them grey.  You can say, "Oh just don't let anything burn on them", well!  Like that's possible?  I may clean up as I cook but that's simply impossible!  Oh well, maybe I'll figure out a better way of scrubbing them clean.  Or maybe someday I can replace them with black ones.  I like the look of grey, but I don't like the look of black burnt on grey! Patooie :-(