We're imagining one of us sitting here, the other preparing a nice meal. Maybe we're checking email or looking up an ingredient in a culinary history web site, with a Red Sox game in the background. Or sipping a Perfect Manhattan while lamb sausage grills fragrantly on the cooktop.

All kinds of counter space!

The faucet is a brass kind of finish which really ties the room together. Man.

Getting these in right required more agita than we cared to handle yesterday, but Kevin perservered and got them in today. They look great.

The Cooktop. I can't wait to make a Sabrett really sweat on the grill!

Faucet is in but not hooked up.

Island bar and butcher block.

Counters are in. Wow.