Kitchen demo & remodel

[retr01]

I wonder if that is like Red Forman's or Donna's folks' kitchen in That 70's Show?

Yeah, I agree. Fabulous remodel!

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Customized storage shelves in that space for what's now there and more would balance things out nicely.

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In our 50's Cold War era Apartment Building/Co-op there was nothing above its fabulous gas range . . .


edit: design detail of above; the shelves are built into the wall that converted our "Junior Four" into a Two Bedroom. Behind the cookbooks on the shelves is the wall below. It's the thickness of 1/2" drywall finished both sides.

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Hats and straw whisk broom kinda thingie on left are opposite the kitchen's built-in shelves.

I like this idea very much for the over the fridge space. Your custom shelve idea over the range are a good fit for this space I think. It would block light from traveling but would allow me to make custom shelving out of nice strong hard wood (vs common prefab manufactured materials) that I think would handle the weight of that iron (I have 5 CI dutch ovens, some enameled and some not) a lot better which together is stupidly heavy. For my CI pans, they will get a hanging treatment like this I think:

This will be on the right side of the refrigerator right next to the backdoor and will hold the 5 or 6 .. maybe 8 CI pans I would be using. My brother lives out in the sticks in southern Ohio literally on the highest hill in the area so he is a bonafide hill-jack and he did a fantastic job remodeling his farm house kitchen with all reclaimed & refinished mid 50s metal & wood cabinetry. He built a single level CI rack that surrounds his entire kitchen as he has a bunch of beautiful CI he likes to display and use. My space is very limited unlike his kitchen that is really big and open (part of an open concept farm house) so mine is going to be multi tier much like the one in the picture. This is all in the future so probably something Ill get to in the new year. That will give me time to source some neat forged CI hooks like the ones in the pics. My brother used these old square head nails from a really old barn that had sat down, rotted a bit and then burned in his area. Those look really cool too. Hmm, maybe he has a couple left over. Another intent of this is to pull that finished wood theme from the counter to my cutting block to that other wall with these. Anyhow, you guys all know. It never ends.

 

[Trash80toG4]

The secret to home improvement . . . don't start.

Glad you liked the over range shelving suggestion for over fridge/next to pantry space.

Depending on the support requirements, I've go a slick hanger bolt/connector nut/threaded rod solution for supporting the front edge from the joists above. Customer used it for his over garage door storage platform project. He said it's the envy of al his neighbors.

Going from memory, no time to go through the thread ATM:
If you span the ceiling for the asymmetrical shelving assy from over "top" of pantry to somewhere a bit more than halfway to the right end you won't be joist spacing limited for the supports.

BTW, I don"t think you've posted the floor plan yet? A pic from dead on of the cubic in question would help a lot in the meantime.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Money pit for a reason LOL. I already am on to the next project which is tearing out the old carpet on the stairs and installing new oak boards which I have stacked up in the garage. Hopefully I get to that tomorrow. which I have about 25 or so to get done. It would be nice to get those cut and nailed into place by Thanksgiving. Cutting it close but Murphy came a knockin' and I was down last week with Covid (feeling fine now) which put me behind. Those stairs should in theory already be done lol.

I don't have the schematic we initially put together where it is easy to get to (wife has it squirreled away somewhere in her office) but that is not necessary to get something put together I think.. That schematic was more to get a visual on how the cabinetry units would come together and which to buy. This is a single space, so a box essentially. Anyhow, I have two studs behind the refrigerator that would be the anchor points for the box if I did go that route but could go into a joist for additional strength if need be.

 

[The House of Moth]

Slick lookin' kitchen sir!

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Slick lookin' kitchen sir!

Thanks! It has turned out to be a very functional space for us as well. Appreciate the kind words

 

[astaira534]

I like this idea very much for the over the fridge space. Your custom shelve idea over the range are a good fit for this space I think. It would block light from traveling but would allow me to make custom shelving out of nice strong hard wood (vs common prefab manufactured materials) that I think would handle the weight of that iron (I have 5 CI dutch ovens, some enameled and some not) a lot better which together is stupidly heavy. For my CI pans, they will get a hanging treatment like this I think:

This will be on the right side of the refrigerator right next to the backdoor and will hold the 5 or 6 .. maybe 8 CI pans I would be using. My brother lives out in the sticks in southern Ohio literally on the highest hill in the area so he is a bonafide hill-jack, he hire a online interior designer limerick he did a fantastic job remodeling his farm house kitchen with all reclaimed & refinished mid 50s metal & wood cabinetry. He built a single level CI rack that surrounds his entire kitchen as he has a bunch of beautiful CI he likes to display and use. My space is very limited unlike his kitchen that is really big and open (part of an open concept farm house) so mine is going to be multi tier much like the one in the picture. This is all in the future so probably something Ill get to in the new year. That will give me time to source some neat forged CI hooks like the ones in the pics. My brother used these old square head nails from a really old barn that had sat down, rotted a bit and then burned in his area. Those look really cool too. Hmm, maybe he has a couple left over. Another intent of this is to pull that finished wood theme from the counter to my cutting block to that other wall with these. Anyhow, you guys all know. It never ends.

I’m thinking of doing something similar in my kitchen, maybe building a small multi-tier rack with forged hooks to hang my CI pans so they’re easy to grab while cooking. Do you think spacing the hooks a bit wider helps when stacking heavier pans, or would you keep them closer together like in the picture?

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I’m thinking of doing something similar in my kitchen, maybe building a small multi-tier rack with forged hooks to hang my CI pans so they’re easy to grab while cooking. Do you think spacing the hooks a bit wider helps when stacking heavier pans, or would you keep them closer together like in the picture?

If you are anchoring into a stud I don’t think spacing is too big of a deal meaning you can maximize your space and keep everything tight.

Now if you are anchoring into the sheet rock with something like toggle bolts. Then yes, I would spread the weight out so you don’t over load a single toggle bolt and risk coming through the sheet rock. This is also more of a concern IMO with older homes with older more brittle sheet rock (like my house that was built in 1976). The sheet rock itself at this point is brittle and not terribly strong - not like modern 2026 sheet rock anyhow.

If you have the space, I prefer a long 10-12ft wood board (think like a chair rail but chest height) secured into the kitchen studs with a hook screwed into it every maybe 1-1.5ft? Then a second thinner wood board of the same thickness runs about 6-8 inches below it to catch/rest the hanging pan on so it never touches/rubs/damages your Sheetrock. This allows the pans to rest almost completely flat against the wall keeping the interior cleaner. And displays them nicely.

This is how my brothers kitchen is but it’s a really big and open Amish farm house design with plenty of wall space. My Home’s kitchen is teeny-tiny by comparison, so I simply don’t have the wall space to do that or I would. As of right now I haven’t actually made my pan rack. I have a space for where I think I’m going to do it but the majority of my CI collection is hanging on my garage wall pegboard and the 3-4 pieces I use on the regular are on a CI tier like this Lodge counter top organizer on my counter top next to my range. The remaining few CI pans I use for bread baking I have in a cupboard and my Dutch ovens all ended up living above/on top of my refrigerator with my Fermenting crocks.

The CI rack while being a very simple build is still on the project list and will eventually get done but my wife has other things she wants me to do LOL that take precedent so the CI counter rack was a quick fix and I like its location. I’m actually going to build the CI wall rack (essentially what I pictured above) at the same time I build a vertical magnetic knife rail to display all my kitchen knives. I do have a 2.5 y/o running around right now though so Id rather not want all my kitchen knives aka awesome swords for hacking up his older brothers ( 6 & 8) LOL reachable until he himself is at least 6 or so and with these projects being kind of linked (in my mind anyhow), I haven’t done them yet. It will get done however … eventually haha.