Decisions

The upper cabinet with cubbies on the far right would be flush with the lower cabinets, since it has to sit in front of the plumbing chase in the corner.  These cubbies would probably need to be custom built, either by the cabinet company or by our contractor (out of prefinished flat stock from the cabinet company).  Our previous plan had put the mail cubbies into the next cabinet to the left.  But this felt a little weird because it’s right by the sink.  This new arrangement pushes the mail / charger (non-kitchen) space into the corner and has a much better feel to it.

For our corner pantry, we will want the door & trim to be somewhat close to the finish of our cabinets — which at this point we think will be cherry.  To have this door be white like the rest of the doors in the house would look like someone just stuck a closet in the middle of the kitchen.  We’re not sure if we want this door to be all-wood or have glass.  There are manufacturers — TruStile is one — who will make a door similar to the other doors in our house, in cherry.  Finding moulding like our current door moulding in cherry may be more difficult.

Tonight’s realization — as I dropped the nice cruet containing my salad dressing and it shattered on our tile floor — is that we should do a wood floor in the new kitchen, not tile.  You’ll recall that radiant floor heat wound up being more of a premium in cost than we were willing to pay, so there’s no requirement for us to do tile.  We were leaning toward wood, but tonight’s broken glass cleanup pushed me over the edge.