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IN Farm Kitchen, before
Shot from the family room, Howard County, IN. Packing and sorting has begun. Full write up at:
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The bar area
Microwave corner
Looking SW from center of kitchen. A raccoon or other small beastie got into the house over the winter and apparently threw a frat party.
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Southeast corner of kitchen
Test demolition has already begun -- there was a 36 in cabinet attached to the blue soffit that I removed to make sure I could.
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Looking east into kitchen from family room
This kitchen is actually rather sizeable, approximately 13 x 10.5 feet, but was badly designed. It...
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An extravagant 36 inches of counterspace
Quite seriously. This kitchen had 36 inches of usable counter, the rest being either being under the...
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North wall of kitchen
Beyond being old and inefficient, approximately 40 years of deferred maintenance were coming home to...
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Antique wiring
Initially, I had planned to remove the knee-wall upon which the bartop rested... that was before I...
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Live wires that go... where?
No matter how I tried to trace them, I couldn't discover where these wires ran, though they...
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Oo! Spidey cave!
Though nothing compared to the basement, the discovery of spider webs bothered almost everyone but...
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Half of the IKEA pile
Our shopping day -- and we only had one, given that the closest IKEA was 3 hours away -- resulted in...
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The other half...
I must say, though, my grandmother champed it out. For 73, with one bionic knee and a hip thinking...
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The third half...
Yeah, it was a huge pile. We took advantage of the sale, buying three appliances (fridge, microwave...
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Fridge!
Though stainless under the blue protective wrap, we both loved the blue color. It looked like anodized titanium...
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Demolition Day
I'd thought the cabs would be harder to pull... but turns out, they were dying. In several cases,...
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Plaster, my nemesis.
In a house of this age, three rules are to be expected -- nothing is plumb, square or true; nothing...
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Buh-bye, you energy hog!
The refrigerator is older than I am (I'm 34) and probably required its own power plant. Further, it...
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Dying plaster and new windows.
Over the past couple years, my grandmother's contractor has been slowly bringing the house up to...
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Indiana Farm Kitchen
