Kitchen dry fit

A few nice kitchen blinds images I found:

Kitchen dry fit


Image by Jacob Davies
Kitchen dry fit. The cooktop is so shallow that it may not even be worth putting a drawer blank in front of it – better to just have full-height doors. The same may even be true of the sink but I’ll have to test it out.

The top and bottom bars of the blind in the center here need to be trimmed on the miter saw and filed and replaced. The individual slats have been cut to size. It’s not hanging quite straight here because the too-long bottom bar is in the wrong place on the magnets.

Above the middle window here lies a problem: specifically that the original cooker vent was there, but the cooker is now about 12" to the left. So I probably have to cut a new vent hole there. I intend to use the original cooker vent but I will probably repaint it first, as it’s the same yucky yucky green as the formica and bathtub used.

The cooktop is small but the big burner I think puts out more heat than any of the four burners on the original stove. Good for a kettle, or using a frying pan. The stove is a little closer to the front edge than the sink, but I think it’ll all look fine in the end. The original stove was also incredibly heavy because it had a gas oven – necessary for the 60s housewife, maybe? But it seems a little silly now. I plan on putting a convection/microwave oven on the other side to this – obviously, that’s not usable without an outside 110V power source as it would kill a battery/inverter setup in minutes.

The countertop here has a bit of a power outlet problem – the duplex outlet in the middle is behind the cooktop and not really usable (and OH MY GOD you would not believe the pain that was involved in installing it, and now it’s worse than useless and might even have to be blanked out! grrrrrrrr)

And the other wall space available is mostly behind the sink. I guess I could put a couple of outlets on the right of the big blank space behind the sink here – bearing in mind everything in here is on an GFCI breaker anyway, so it’s not particularly dangerous to have an outlet near the sink – but probably I’ll just put in, like, eight or um maybe sixteen outlets on the far right of the countertop. Mostly things like battery charges and laptops get plugged in – nothing that would strain a 20A circuit. And there’s already a feed to there.

Kitchen shadows


Image by treehouse1977
Leaf and gecko.

Rioja & Geraldine


Image by J Pagel