Kitchen cabinets

The rough framing is now complete (or mostly complete) so we met with the kitchen person and contractor and picked out cabinets.  Rich and I had already been looking at catalogs and online and knew pretty much what we wanted.  Surprisingly, they showed up with a sample cabinet door that looked very much like what we'd already selected.  We wanted a lighter color than they picked but that's just because we know how dark the back of the house can get because of the limited windows.  We also picked out cabinets for the bathroom that are a slightly different style but will be in the same color.  We're also going to get a much larger island than I originally thought we'd have space for.  Sometimes I forget how big our kitchen really is.  We still need to pick out granite for the counter tops, figure out what type of backsplash (either a strip of granite or tile), and pick flooring.  I'd really like tile in the kitchen and dining room but we need to see about costs because the room is huge.  We also talked through the electrical stuff for each of the rooms with the contractor to make sure that we'd get all the outlets and boxes that we wanted in the right places.  This means I should be able to get the ceiling fan in the dining room actually hanging OVER my dining room table instead of next to it.  I also dropped off the specs for the tub we want.  It's maybe a little bit shorter than we'd hoped for but it's nice and deep and will be a whirlpool type.

So, at least it feels like we're making progress.