Not sure why my buttons aren't showing (swing)

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I've essentially copied a layout from a previous assignment I wrote, and everything displays fine. I'm splitting the main window up in 2 parts using BorderLayout as the layout manager for the frame. Then I pop a JPanel in the north spot and another one in the center. Most of my buttons, labels and components are in the north panel. But they don't display! I'm not sure what I am missing (but I have a feeling it's something stupid)

public class HouseHoldBudget extends JFrame {
	private JPanel 		northPanel;
	private JPanel 		centerPanel;
	private JPanel 		mainPane;
	private JButton		enterNameAndStartBalanceButton;
	private	JButton		calculateProjectionButton;
	private JLabel		nameLabel;
	private JTextArea	nameTextArea;
	private	JLabel		startBalanceLabel;
	private JTextArea	startBalanceTextArea;
	private JTable		mainTable;
	private JButton		openFileButton;
	private	JButton		writeFileButton;
	
	public HouseHoldBudget()
	{
		super("Household Budget");
		northPanel = new JPanel(new SpringLayout());
		centerPanel = new JPanel();
		mainPane = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
		enterNameAndStartBalanceButton = new JButton("Enter name/start Balance");
		calculateProjectionButton = new JButton("Calculate Projection");
		nameLabel = new JLabel("Name:");
		nameTextArea = new JTextArea();
		mainTable = new JTable();
		openFileButton = new JButton("Open");
		writeFileButton = new JButton("Write");
		this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		this.setFocusable(true);
		this.setSize(1024, 800);
		this.setResizable(false);
		
		layoutGUI();
		
	}
	
	private void layoutGUI()
	{
		setupNorthPanel();
		setupCenterPanel();
		this.add(centerPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		this.add(northPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
		
	}
	
	private void setupNorthPanel()
	{
		SpringLayout layout = (SpringLayout) northPanel.getLayout();
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, enterNameAndStartBalanceButton, 5, SpringLayout.WEST, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, enterNameAndStartBalanceButton, 5, SpringLayout.NORTH, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, calculateProjectionButton, 5, SpringLayout.EAST, enterNameAndStartBalanceButton);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, calculateProjectionButton, 5, SpringLayout.NORTH, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, openFileButton, 5, SpringLayout.EAST, calculateProjectionButton);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, openFileButton, 5, SpringLayout.NORTH, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, writeFileButton, 5, SpringLayout.EAST, openFileButton);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, writeFileButton, 5, SpringLayout.NORTH, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, nameLabel, 0, SpringLayout.HORIZONTAL_CENTER, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, nameLabel, 0, SpringLayout.NORTH, northPanel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, nameTextArea, 5, SpringLayout.EAST, nameLabel);
		layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, nameTextArea, 0, SpringLayout.NORTH, northPanel);
		
		northPanel.add(enterNameAndStartBalanceButton);
		northPanel.add(calculateProjectionButton);
		northPanel.add(openFileButton);
		northPanel.add(writeFileButton);
		northPanel.add(nameLabel);
		northPanel.add(nameTextArea);
		northPanel.setSize(1024, 200);
		northPanel.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
	}
	
	public void setupCenterPanel()
	{
		JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(mainTable);
		centerPanel.add(jsp);
	}
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		HouseHoldBudget window = new HouseHoldBudget();
		window.setVisible(true);
	}

}

Nevermind, I changed setSize to setPreferredSize. So annoying.