Add me in as a Legacy 36" gas/electric owner. We bought our house in October and have been working on the reno ever since. (House is 167 years old, so there is much to do.) We have demo'd the kitchen down to the studs and carpenters start tomorrow! They are sistering new studs to the old to straighten up the walls before the cabinets go up next week. The lovely brick-red Legacy is the only thing worth saving from the old kitchen. It is absolutely filthy, though, from top to bottom--POs were complete slobs. Anyone have advice for cleaning it inside and out? I was a little concerned about the oven size, and since I didn't have the expense of a new range, decided to add a wall oven to my kitchen plans, so I think I've gotten the best of both worlds!

You mean, remove the drawers? Hmmm, I’ll have to see if my husband is willing to do that. They are large, heavy drawers. I’ve had several surgeries, and cannot do it on my own. Btw, to accommodate the drawers, I chose a sink with a rear center drain, so the pipes are as close to the wall, as possible. Oh, and two things...we do not have a garbage disposal, so I don’t know what your cabinet maker was talking about. And, it was my contractor, not the cabinet maker, who cut the back panel of the drawer, and configured a notched encasement to accommodate the pipes.

Oh, so the KD apparently has no clue as to how a kitchen functions if she was putting in all 18" and 21" drawers! Thank goodness you caught that. Actually, I can hear her muttering under her breath about "This crazy woman who wants all of her cabinets to be drawers. I don't understand why she would do that, it's going to look terrible and choppy and not be very functional, but okay." tart to lay out where you are putting things. Take your floorplan and write down where things will live. That will dictate how big drawers should be in each area. Make it logical to where you will use the items. For instance, you want your pots and pans to be stored close to the range - those cabinets need to be wider (and should be a 3 drawer unit) Where are your cooking utensils going? Where are your baking supplies going? Where do your leftovers storage containers go? What about plastic wrap, sandwich bags, etc. Where will you want your flatware (ideally, it should be close to your DW and where you will set up for most of your meals, but if you can choose just one, personally, I would go for near the DW.) What about spices while you are cooking? Do you apply most of those spices during prep or while you are actually cooking and are your prep and cooking space side by side? How many "tall items" do you have? And how often do you use them? Say for instance, you have a blender that you don't want out on the counter but use often, you would want it to have a home somewhere near where you are likely to use it (ingredients from the fridge?)...how tall is the blender? How tall are the drawers? Are you going to have a lazy susan or something (super susan, etc) or is the kitchen retaining the blind corner? If you have a lazy susan, often tall items can go there. As an aside, I'd probably try to eliminate the blind corner since it's not adequately usable storage....things go into the black hole in there and NEVER return. We all have similar "ingredients", or things that go into our kitchen, but each of us differ a bit on how much space we need for certain objects and how we use our kitchen, so it's tough for us to say exactly how wide each drawer bank should be for your uses. It is fair to say that wider drawers are typically more useful for many storage needs than narrow ones. And it results in more actual usable space since each cabinet side and drawer side diminishes the amount of storage space...it makes sense that two cabinet and drawer sides would take up less space than four. Oh, and you can change the size of your uppers around to suit what is below if you want them to match up in size. Personally, I wouldn't worry on that quite as much. And if you use many spices, I would try to get a spice pull out somewhere in the kitchen (close to prep or cooking areas).

Just a little update to say I am slowly moving along. Here is a before photo and a picture of where I am now. Before and now: I sorted out the bags. I removed most (not all) of the items I don't want there. Haven't dealt with the papers on the door yet but will need to as a pantry wall unit will be added where the papers are now. Went to IKEA to look for ideas and possible bins and garbage containers. Found one for the recycling that we will buy. It's a bit bigger (which we didn't need), and so with the new 14 inch shelves we will have to start the bottom shelf a bit higher to accommodate the new bin. The smaller bins for the shelves at IKEA were OK. I thought I found one I would like to use, but when I got home, I realized it was bigger than I would like. So I will have to look around some more---maybe a dollar store, Walmart? We were hoping to find some kind of battery operated lighting at IKEA, but there were none. We happen to have an extra one of the type that lights up when the door opens. I will give that a try, but was hoping to find some kind of strip lighting. Don't know if the one I have will be sufficient by itself. I would think I would need two of them. But since I have one, I will see how well it works. But I remember Jean mentioning motion activated lighting she is using in her similar pantry. So there is hope to find something! So as I go through this pantry reno, I can say that it feels good to rearrange and get rid of old items. Another discovery is that when wanting to keep certain items and move them to another location, I am discovering that I need to do some major clean ups in other areas too! So, at times, I have gotten distracted cleaning up the other spaces. Then I have had to remember what I was trying to accomplish and redirect myself back to the pantry reno! I will continue this journey and update as I go along. _____________________________ Edited to add: This is the kind of LED motion light I have one of: https://www.amazon.ca/Sunbeam-Power-Failure-Night-Light/dp/B07CTZLXG8?th=1 Just tried it out. Works pretty well. Two would be better I think.