Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Glass door options....

Hi,

I'm in the last step of my kitchen remodel. I have some doors where I want to place a glass panel. I would like either a frosted or "milky" glass look.
I was unable to find the milky kind of glass in my area.
Here are my questions:

1.) are there different grades of frosting? I would like to have a very limited see through effect.

2.) The other day I stopped at Ikea. They have an interesting alternative for "milk" glass. They use a regular glass with some kind of white foil backer on the back side. Has anyone seen this or experience with it? It seems something I could manufacture myself...

I don't know where you tried, was it just kitchen design centers? For my own kitchen, I laid the door face down, made a template for the glass insert and went to a glass shop where the options were enormous. Selected the glass, paid, and a week later picked up the glass panels. Maybe that's an option you have not tried?

Rockler has a number of styles by special order:

http://www.rockler.com/project/gallery/glass-25styles.cfm

Pay attention to the pricing and ordering; the most prominent price shown is actually the set of samples. The glass itself is custom ordered and priced by the square inch.

You also can pick up spray with some frosty effects at Lowes, etc.

Thanks. I visited 5 glass shops in my area so far. They only have one frosted option. However, I can already tell that they didn't always have the same frosted glass. Even Rockler seems to have only one "grade" of frosting. I'm somewhat convinced that there are different kinds out there looking at samples in kitchen cabinet stores...