Tuesday, December 10, 2013

There's a Hole in the Wall, Gang!

This is not a bearing wall, just a wide partition that 
looks structural, but isn't. It's a hollow waste of space.
Call it a Butler's Cabinet, pantry, a Costco Cupboard, or maybe a Paper Warehouse, there's an opportunity for valuable kitchen storage in the passageway between our galley kitchen and the dining room.
Stan and Hai attacked the wall tonight with a Sawzall and a vacuum cleaner. The wall cavity is a foot thick, the depth of a standard cabinet, so there's a lot of usable cubic feet in there.
We happen to have a leftover matching cabinet face frame and doors from that laundry room remodel we did this summer. It's been leaning idly in the garage, hoping for an opportunity to serve. So this could be a really cheap project.
Let's see what happens next. We're still planning the next move now that we can see what's in the hole.
With the endless below zero weather, and too much HGTV, cabin fever has set in. This may be enough to break it.
It's too late to turn back now.