We’ve had a few discussions and come to a few decisions over the past few days.
Lis had some good ideas for the area of our mail / charger area, in front of the plumbing & electrical chase. Rather than a tall & narrow cabinet in the corner, with our mail cubbies in the next cabinet to the left, it would be better to have the mail cubbies as part of that tall cabinet, even if it means building something custom.
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.