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The retiring of this thread will be a siginificant loss to the culture of the GW Kitchen Forum, in my opinion. It orginated from a community perception of the need to organize and preserve valuable shared knowledge about kitchen renos. Buehl stepped up and organized - and then faithfully maintained the thread over its many incarnations. And all of us watched out for it and threw in the needed bumps to keep it visible on the front page. We often referred newbies to it, confident it would be there for them, as it had been for many of us when we started out. This thread perfectly matched the down-to-earth, problem-solving atmosphere of the KF in a way that having most of the same content parked up in a static thread by the management will not. I will miss it. Though I can imagine Buehl will be glad of having it off her shoulders and out of her care. Thank you (again) Buehl! Liriodendron

Doing my part to help Angie out with the "bump"!

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