I really love the way you customized the cabinetry for your needs-- drawers; esp. drawers for the desk area...

Lisa

Lisa, I can't believe what a difference having organized drawers has made for us. We keep everything so much more tidy, and can actually find things!

Just updated the photobucket with the name of our granite: Golden Vyara or Vyara Classico. Big DUH! to me for forgetting to post that!

missyml, the TV is great. I don't watch it much, but DH and DS love it. Honestly, I'm not too crazy about the undercabinet bracket as I think it's rather cumbersome. Again, hubby loves it 'cuz we can fold it up and away, and it swivels. He just loves gadgets...

What a wonderful kitchen! Everything just complements so well together.

BTW, I ordered the Aquasana water filter after seeing one of your earlier pictures. Ours is not installed yet. How do you like the dispenser and the quality of the water?

Yogini2, the Aquasana is working out just fine. I have to say I've never had one before, so don't have anything to compare it to. The oddest thing, to me, is that the faucet is not pressurized. That is, it doesn't come out with force or make any noise. However, the people at Aquasana say this is by design; it supposedly reduces the chances of flooding should a filter start leaking or something. Also, it drips for a few seconds after turning off; again, they tell me this is normal. So once we got used to these few "quirks", we have to say we like it; my son uses the term "glorious" to describe the taste, and our family's water consumption has gone way up! And also the system is well-rated and the price is good.

catkin

Ariadni6, yes the bracket folds and swivels. We got the Sharp bracket model AN-PUCM; I think there may be other companies who make brackets compatible with the Sharp Aquos, but we decided to stick with Sharp to be on the safe side. We bought it on amazon.com.

Thanks for posting how you attached the plates to the backsplash. I hadn't thought of that.

YAY! IT'S BEAUTIFUL!

Enjoy!

I think you did a great job doing your own drawer dividers. Where did you get the gizmos to slide in and hold your divider rails? I just asked my 13 year old son to do some of my drawers like yours! Can you direct me?

Thank you! Congratulations!

Sheri

I was glad to figure out a way to hang the plates without needing to permanently damage the tiles. I didn't know if the 3M command products would work, but they seem to be holding up nicely.

MsAzadi, too funny! I guess that's another good reason for the paper towels being there! I had actually put them there so people can cover whatever they're heating in the microwave and eliminate splatter; I forbid people to use any kind of plastic or plastic wrap in the microwave (one on my latest idiosyncrasies).

vasheri, the drawer dividers might be a bit much for your 13-year-old unless you trust him with power tools. Before I begin, I�d just like to say that the drawer dividers were rather tedious to make, but certainly not difficult. We decided to do our own for several reasons: we liked the look of wood, we couldn�t find reasonably priced wooden ones big enough to fit our drawers, and we wanted to do several drawers and wanted to do them economically.

So, we bought some �" plywood, some wood edgebanding like this, and a few products we found at Outwater Plastics (I�ll provide the links here, but for some reason they always seem to lead to a page with a stop sign on it; just click where it says "click to continue" and you should get to the right page).

First, we figured out how we wanted to divide the drawer and cut the plywood to the appropriate dimensions. For the first divider, we fastened pieces of binning strip in the proper spots in the drawer with 3M removable adhesive tape, then inserted the strip of plywood. If the next divider we wanted to put in was going to butt up to the first divider, we used these tack in divider supports, and then more binning strip where it attached to the drawer.

(sidenote: the tack in divider supports� nails are a bit too long to hammer into the �" plywood, so we trimmed them with wire snips first).

After all the dividers were done, we used the wood edgebanding to finish the tops.

If you don�t mind plastic, these look a whole lot easier! Alas, they only come in two heights.

I hope this is makes sense; let me know if I need to clarify anything!