I see what you mean by the actual width of a CD. I have a skinny one made out of cheap wood that is less than 6" wide, I guess I was thinking that most were that width. The cheapie has thin wooden slats to hold the cds. If I did use a couple of those it would take a lot of dressing up before it looked even halfway decent. The Billy wall shelf WAS on my list of possibilities. Turned on itÂs side, though, at 13 ¾, itÂs an inch too wide. IÂm going on a field trip to Ikea tomorrow to look for other possibilities, and bring a sample shelf with me to check colors in other lines. I plan to stop at Hobby Lobby too. bronwynsmom, please go ahead! Get carried away! Maybe by brainstorming with all of you IÂll come up with the perfect thing. If I could find a wine rack with solid shelves rather than slats that would be great. The slats make it too obvious that itÂs meant for wine. Given that the room is upstairs, I donÂt think weÂd ever want to store wine there. Gets a little too hot and sunny in the summer. We store our wine in the basement (when itÂs not being used up too quickly to be stored). But that gives me another search term I can use. Possibilities! When I was redoing my kitchen a few years back I remember looking into a unit that would go horizontally underneath a cabinet that has small niches or cubbies. I think it was called a spice drawer unit. You could order it with or without drawers, or small wicker baskets. I dropped the idea then, because it was really expensive. Maybe I can find one again, without drawers, just shelves. WHY does every project I start turn out to be so COMPLICATED?!? And itÂs always some stupid little thing that stalls it.

There are places that fabricate with stainless steel and can do a custom job for you. You can start with posting an inquiry here on the forum to see if anyone can rec a location specific metalsmith. If you go this route, you may want to tell the fabricator which appliance brand you have so they can try and match the stainless steel color and finish....as we all know that there are many variations. Another alternative is putting up a decorative filler, maybe something that will match your backsplash. Good luck! Pepper ~ Can't wait to get back home to see the progress.

We've thought about a shelf with two separate appliances because we'd definitely be happier being able to choose appliance separately. Having taken the face plate off the front of the current unit so that we could look inside the opening, we now know that in addition to building a shelf, we'd need to put a liner piece of wood over one side of the cavity because what is there is not finish quality material, and we'd need another piece of liner in order to bring the back side forward because now it is too deep for a simple shelf for a microwave to sit on. Is this terribly difficult to do? Taylor's cabinets, can you please explain the filler and overlay filler to me? I do know what you mean about the stain being difficult to match. We just visited a kitchen showroom, and I saw several cabinets where they had to slightly alter the size to insert the new display oven, and despite the fact that the cabinetmaker had done a good job, I could still see the patch. Thanks again.

I like Sabrina's idea. Are the MW and oven separate appliances that are installed independently with the MW installed above the wall oven? If the former, then another option is a Steam oven above and a regular wall oven below. Steam ovens are usually smaller and maybe that combination would fit in the cabinet as-is? You might only have to replace the MW and keep the existing bottom wall oven. Or, instead of a steam oven, maybe a GE Café Advantium? Advantiums operate as a standalone MW, standalone oven, or combined as a "speed oven" (cooking with oven & MW energy combined). If they're one appliance, then the above won't work without swapping out the cabinet as Sabrina mentions.