This kitchen has no windows to the outside. Perhaps because of that, the owner liked the kitchen cabinet doors-as-windows idea and as much indirect lighting and white surfaces as possible. He started with the French country kitchen motif and rustic wide oak plank floors and built on that. He stayed involved with the cabinetry of the room being a creative idea man from start to finish, choosing the details of the window mullions to the finial leaf hinges on inset doors to the dovetail maple drawer boxes and oversize crown moulding. Having been involved with custom woodwork for my entire life I welcomed the interaction and freedom to build the quality he and his wife envisioned. In the end the house was sold and the couple never really used the kitchen they put so much energy create. Maybe the process itself really is more important then the completion.