Chel_in_IL
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As I near finishing my bathroom remodel, I'm starting to think about the mechanics of my kitchen remodel.
Here's a Visio of how my kitchen currently is. The former owner added an addition on the house, which is rather small (approx 9x10). He moved the kitchen out into this area. I think he made the addition so "narrow" as it didn't want to relocate the electrical lines coming in to the house. The house is a bi-level, split foyer, so the addition is raised about 5' off the ground and there is a storage room underneath that is accessible from outside the house.
The water supply pipes currently run along the wall and through the cabinets. I guess the former owner had them running through the storage area, but since I'm in Northern IL, he probably had problems with the pipes freezing. Duh.
The current vents are on the right side of the kitchen, one coming up from the back of the stove area, and another more toward the corner of the room (there's a sink in the corner cabinet at the top right of the drawing.) The vents join together in a soffit and exit out through one pipe in the roof.
Here's a picture when I moved in some 3 years ago, so you get an idea of how awful this is.... it's great to have a large living room, but the kitchen is totally separate from the rest of the house...
Ok, so you've seen my hole-in-the-wall kitchen.
This is an idea of what I want to do:
Obviously, I'm looking at removing the bearing wall and putting up a header. I'm not worried about that - just did it in a house my fiance' is remodeling.
The wall at the bottom of the L-shaped counter top will be a half-wall high enough for a bar-height countertop. I'd like to have this for a breakfast bar and also for entertaining. On the left side of the room is the garage.
My fiance' suggested using "vent caps" so that I wouldn't have to vent out through the roof. To me that sounds like it would be too simple, and there has to be a drawback... say, that the walls are tight, how would the plumbing vent with the cap in the wall?
Ideas/suggestions appreciated.
Michelle in Machesney Park, IL
Here's a Visio of how my kitchen currently is. The former owner added an addition on the house, which is rather small (approx 9x10). He moved the kitchen out into this area. I think he made the addition so "narrow" as it didn't want to relocate the electrical lines coming in to the house. The house is a bi-level, split foyer, so the addition is raised about 5' off the ground and there is a storage room underneath that is accessible from outside the house.
The water supply pipes currently run along the wall and through the cabinets. I guess the former owner had them running through the storage area, but since I'm in Northern IL, he probably had problems with the pipes freezing. Duh.
The current vents are on the right side of the kitchen, one coming up from the back of the stove area, and another more toward the corner of the room (there's a sink in the corner cabinet at the top right of the drawing.) The vents join together in a soffit and exit out through one pipe in the roof.
Here's a picture when I moved in some 3 years ago, so you get an idea of how awful this is.... it's great to have a large living room, but the kitchen is totally separate from the rest of the house...
Ok, so you've seen my hole-in-the-wall kitchen.
This is an idea of what I want to do:
Obviously, I'm looking at removing the bearing wall and putting up a header. I'm not worried about that - just did it in a house my fiance' is remodeling.
The wall at the bottom of the L-shaped counter top will be a half-wall high enough for a bar-height countertop. I'd like to have this for a breakfast bar and also for entertaining. On the left side of the room is the garage.
My fiance' suggested using "vent caps" so that I wouldn't have to vent out through the roof. To me that sounds like it would be too simple, and there has to be a drawback... say, that the walls are tight, how would the plumbing vent with the cap in the wall?
Ideas/suggestions appreciated.
Michelle in Machesney Park, IL