I would not remove the granite yourself. If you can have her contact another stone installer to see what they can do. It might be able to be repaired in place. Good luck and please becareful granite is terribly heavy. ~boxer

So I had Roman Shades for almost 30 years and didn't know it. How weird is THAT? Mine were identical to the one's above but they were the color of the red in the floor. Therefore, I can't use them because I got sick of them. I really want cloth panels over the shades. They'll look pretty with the shades pulled halfway up. I'm thinking a small window pane check so it won't be too obvious and fight with the wallpaper in the adjoining room. Thankfully the wallpaper has a LOT of colors on it so I have a lot of options! But ixnay on the roman shades. Sorry. :(

Q-What is just to the right of the wall oven today? A- To the right of the wall oven is the doorway into the dining room. I agree with buehl that the current place of the cooktop is terrible. It seems that anyone walking by could brush their arm against a flame. I'd want to do something about it right away. I was thinking about the original question of removing the wall oven and filling that space with a range + micro. These things popped into my mind: - I assume there is some type of 'wall' barrier to the right of the wall oven today, right? So, was your husband suggesting to retain the cabinet/wall structures that are currently around the wall ovens, and slipping in the range/micro combo between the two 'walls'? - If his idea was to retain those wall structures, then potentially the right hand oven 'wall' would be a safety barrier between anyone walking through that doorway and the new range. However, you would probably have to remove the left hand oven 'wall' so that you have a landing place to the left of the new range. And buehl pointed out the need for air flow. Is the wall oven gas now? If gas, do you know what logistics it takes to remove it? I think that if you were to take the stop gap measure to put a freestanding range/micro there, it might have to be electric. I don't know if you could safely have a gas freestanding range with cabinet-like walls around it. You'd have to consult the installation booklet for the electric range to find out how close it can be to any combustible material on the side. If it is a freestanding electric range, I believe that it can be right up against a combustible item (for example, cabinet wall or house wall--I'm going by my own freestanding range's booket). Buehl is probably right about the building code if the range is gas; however, for a job of removing a wall oven and putting in an electrical outlet into which you plug in a new freestanding range, I am wondering if you'd even have to get a permit and have an inspection of that new range. I mean, if the wall oven is gas, there might need to be a permit for a gas pipe person to disconnect the gas, and if there's not a suitable electric receptacle for the new range, then you'd need an electrician to install one, and he'd need to get a permit to install the circuit/line for that new receptacle. But after that work is done and it's an empty space with an electric receptacle, and you buy a range and put it in position, I doubt there's any building office requirement where you call an inspector to come and inspect where you plugged in the new range. I guess what I'm saying is that if there's some 'wall' to the right of the wall oven space that you can keep to protect people from walking through that doorway and into your burners, and if you remove the left hand 'wall' so you have a landing space to the left of the range and proper air flow, then I can see how your husband's idea might work. It would get...

Are you sure of the thickness, are you sure this is granite? Most granite counters are three centimeters (1 1/4 inch) thick. If it is 3/4 granite, ignore the following advice, because it's risky enough with 3 cm. Remove more than 24 inches of cabinet (another 1 1/2 or 2 inches), so you can put a 3/4 inch plywood panel faced with a 1 1/2 - 2 inch stile between the washer and dryer, which will support the counter. You can probably reuse one side of the cabinet you remove as the needed support panel. Does that make sense? The granite will span four feet without support, IF you go slow and easy when removing the cabinet, and IF you don't put any weight on it.