Well, I feel like I've accomplished a great feat in life, and I didn't do anything. It was all Brent. :) You see, I've lived with a dryer in my kitchen for the past 5 years. It's always been a source of inconvenience for me, to say the least. In fact, I'll admit that I was ashamed of it for the first year or two. The dryer sticks out too far and you bang into it as you pass by. People walk into my kitchen for the first time and ask, "Is that a dryer?" I have precious little countertop space (thanks to our love of kitchen gadgets, mostly), so I have occasionally tried preparing food on top of the dryer! Right now it's home for a toaster oven and a toaster, but that soon will change. You see...
We have finally taken the plunge and decided to move the dryer into the laundry "closet, " which is also located in the kitchen, but at least I'll be able to close the door on it. In order to do that, we need to buy a stackable washer and dryer (anyone?) and we also needed to move the heat exhaust over to the closet, to make sure everything is to code. Brent worked and worked on it, and he was able to make a hole in the kitchen wall and push the heat exhaust up through the wall. At the top he broke through and the pipe runs along the ceiling to the closet. The ultimate plan is to enclose the pipe and hope it looks like a doorway. Regardless, it's going to be MUCH better than a dryer in the kitchen!
The good news continues... Because we are moving the dryer into the laundry closet, we added a base cabinet to our order of new kitchen cabinets, and we will also have another 2 feet of countertop space. Bliss!!!
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