Whew! The Bean Team has been through a whirlwind of fun this past week...a friend visiting, a cupcake-decorating birthday party, a beautiful wedding in South Carolina, and lots of other little things. But, we're back now and hoping to get back on track with some D.I.O.s (Doing It Ourselves). The canopy over our bed has become a when-we-have-a-few-minutes job and we're now focusing on changing up a cabinet to accommodate our new microwave! It's not here quite yet but will be Thursday, along with all of our other appliances. Read about our recent appliance woes here.
Here's the future home of the soon-to-be-here microwave:
The only problem is that, once we remove the hood vent, the space between the bottom of the microwave and the top of the stove won't be large enough. It's recommended you leave 18 inches so that you have room to use the back burners comfortably...and so you don't over-heat the bottom of your microwave.
We actually had this same problem in our first house. We fixed it there by having a carpenter-friend shorten the cabinet. We then went to the store where our cabinets were made/purchased, and had some new doors that fit our shortened cabinet made. Our cabinets were a lot nicer and so we spent a little extra time and money into making our cooking niche look nice.
Well, in this house, since we'd like to replace the cabinets someday (and because the cabinets aren't made anymore), we're not going to go through all the trouble of having doors custom-made and then painting them to match the existing cabinets. The plan we've devised then, is to remove the doors, hinges, and middle piece, shorten the cabinet, and make a decorative shelf above our microwave.
We love having the doors to enclose our cookbook, coffeemaker, and blender storage, but the options are nill so those things will have to find another home.
Between educating ourselves on carpentry and Anthony's studies, we hope to have this finished next weekend but we'll see what time brings us. Hopefully we'll be suffering from joyful success and not "cabinet fever" after this one!
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