Wow! nice pictures!  Center island definetely the way to go no matter the setup.  Crosspur I love the way you made ea part of your kitchen different but yet it all ties in together! and different colors! and the skillets and the cast iron, and I definetely want the coffee to have its own space.  Thank You everyone!!!  Now the next question how in the world to wait patiently for the build to start!!!!

I have another question bout the kitchen.  What about having a sink catty corner?  Im not going to have any top cabinets.  To me its wasted space anyways. I hate my corner cabinet I have in my house now.  So not sure what to do with a corner.

We were going to put the tiles that are behind the sink behind the stove too, but they have lots of crooves & spaces in them that grease would get in & I thought they would be impossible to clean so we put stone tiles behind the stove. The counter the sink is in is an old counter out of the Ft Scott KS boot store. It is very old so we didn't want to cut the front of it to make cabnets, so you go in the mud room behind it to get in it. It has shelves and is my pantry on the back side, my husband built a small sliding barn door that covers the shelves & storage.