Preparing the Pantry
June 20th 2009 07:37
Not sure if I've mentioned on here that we're doing some renovating in the kitchen here at home. We've removed the wall between the kitchen and what was most recently my office (formerly the smallest bedroom in the house) and done all sorts of pulling and shoving and removing and replacing. Still a long way to go, especially as the project manager got knocked off her bike a few days after she began this latest process.
Anyway, today we went and picked up the kind of kitset corner pantry that we'd ordered last week. Must say they were very quick off the mark (Kitchens 4 Less) and well priced.
They do a standard pantry at about 1100 mm, but we thought that might be a bit loose in the space available so we opted for 1200 mm. Should have stuck with the former! 1200 is fine except that when that's all the space you have, you're going to have some problems getting the thing in the area. Even more so when you have to push it in under an 'arch' between the kitchen proper and what would have once been a back porch, perhaps, which came with the house and isn't likely to be removed any time soon.
And there was another problem. The pantry has a 'lid' or ceiling on it, but given the height
we'd gone for and the height of the arch, and a certain piece of old-fashioned conduit piping that can't be shifted, there was no way we were going to get this lid on and actually fasten it into place.
My wife had already woken up thinking about this problem, and so, by the end of the day, in order to get the pantry into the place available, we had 'employed' my mid-twenties son who lives with us at the moment, my daughter who lives upstairs, my other daughter and her man - and of course, ourselves....neither of whom are getting any younger, even though we don't admit it.
There were times when we felt like the game wasn't worth the candle, to be honest. But we persevered, pulled off the lower part of the archway - the only bit that could be removed without the house falling down; sawed off an obstructive bit of wood that was hanging down, pulled off another chunk of wood beside the electric range, removed a chunk of gib that we'd put on some time back, got the lid of the pantry on with some actual screws holding it in place, avoided leaving anyone stuck forever in the corner behind the pantry, heaved and shoved and pushed and pulled, and got the darn thing in place.
What a job!
Anyway, today we went and picked up the kind of kitset corner pantry that we'd ordered last week. Must say they were very quick off the mark (Kitchens 4 Less) and well priced.
They do a standard pantry at about 1100 mm, but we thought that might be a bit loose in the space available so we opted for 1200 mm. Should have stuck with the former! 1200 is fine except that when that's all the space you have, you're going to have some problems getting the thing in the area. Even more so when you have to push it in under an 'arch' between the kitchen proper and what would have once been a back porch, perhaps, which came with the house and isn't likely to be removed any time soon.
And there was another problem. The pantry has a 'lid' or ceiling on it, but given the height
The pantry in the process of being done; with some kitchen utensils to make it feel at home, and the remaining shelves unshelved as yet.
My wife had already woken up thinking about this problem, and so, by the end of the day, in order to get the pantry into the place available, we had 'employed' my mid-twenties son who lives with us at the moment, my daughter who lives upstairs, my other daughter and her man - and of course, ourselves....neither of whom are getting any younger, even though we don't admit it.
There were times when we felt like the game wasn't worth the candle, to be honest. But we persevered, pulled off the lower part of the archway - the only bit that could be removed without the house falling down; sawed off an obstructive bit of wood that was hanging down, pulled off another chunk of wood beside the electric range, removed a chunk of gib that we'd put on some time back, got the lid of the pantry on with some actual screws holding it in place, avoided leaving anyone stuck forever in the corner behind the pantry, heaved and shoved and pushed and pulled, and got the darn thing in place.
What a job!
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