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over refrigerator cabinet

Posted Feb 22nd, 09 at 11:20 pm by PoorOwner

I had a lot of thoughts about the over refrigerator storage, but could not fit a 36" cabinet with the space remaining and vertical panels together. I didn't want to lose any space either. So I decided to build an extra deep storage about 29.5", and attach the doors to what I can.
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Kitchen Progress

Posted Feb 11th, 09 at 1:52 am by PoorOwner

some pictures of what I have been working on

cabinet lighting installed and tested


Sink install


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Range hood installed - a discovery

Posted Jan 12th, 09 at 9:11 pm by PoorOwner

I think I may have found the reason the previous owners set the OTR microwave to recirculation (which, overtime caused an oily gunky mess on the ceiling), instead of venting up and out the exterior wall. I mean all the ducting was there, but it probably didn't work!

There was the builder's...
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Tile floor installed

Posted Jan 5th, 09 at 11:00 pm by PoorOwner

The kitchen remodel had been slowed down alot by the flooring project. I knew I wanted a tile floor, but I didn't pay too much attention to my house's construction. It turned out my floor had alot of deflection along with sagging subfloor. Over 30 hours was spend in the crawl space flattening the subfloor...
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Picked up kitchen cabinets

Posted Nov 27th, 08 at 2:44 am by PoorOwner

Picked up our cabinets from Ikea warehouse today. 2 pallets over 1700 lbs. Then I went to pick up another 400 lbs of porcelain tiles. It wasn't too bad unloading, not one thing was overly heavy. We checked off everything and was delighted to find nothing was missing.

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