The Quick Recipe We Used in Our Kitchen-Light Quartz Countertops-Porcelain Mosaic Backsplash (in a complementary color)-With Dark Wood Shaker Style Cabinets (for contrast)-A Fabulous Shiny Faucet (for pop)-Color Pendants (for more Pop)-Stainless Steel Appliances-Vinyl Floors (yes, vinyl!)

It looks and feels more expensive and luxurious and I use a dark grout to prevent staining.

You would want to shadow and befriend a local wholesaler and see if it's even what you think you are signing up for first.

Lots of dark and even at noon the sun is only about 45 degrees above (if you can see it) 

Therefore in all this confusion, now I can't show the house until everything is back up and the house is cleaned (house is dark, hot, and dirty right now), and I need to get someone out to reactivate the water and electricity.

Start building relationships with active, seasoned investors...shadow them, let them show you the ropes.

doors.I did a mockup of the doors left in place with a more dramatic dark looking kitchen (which might not fly at all well with your target market)--I just did this as an experiment of sorts.And on that backsplash, if this were mine, I would have 3 outlets plus one on the backsplash next to the fridge.

Even when I do that just as in good times I may be wrong or I may be proved exceedingly correct.My analogy for all of this is that I am the captain of my financial ship and I am navigating through a chain of rocky islands in the middle of a horrible storm in the dark.

Or 3/4, or who know's what but in end, there left a shadow of what they were prior. 

At this point I’m still narrowed in on that day like it’s the only light in the dark.