Betsy? Where is your hot water tank? Might it be that?
----- Original Message ----- From: Betsy Whitney To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Kitchen Remodel and Kitchen Aid cabinet Not sure what we're going to do with the mixer yet, but I have another little glitch. I have a place in the corner of the kitchen where there is a counter with a wall next to it on the right. If I turn to my right, there is another counter in front of me with a wall on the left side of it. I can't figure out why that wall is there and when I knock on the back side of that wall, it sounds as if there is nothing inside. The space is about 3 feet by 3 and a half feet. I tried to get a copy of the original plans for the house so we could see if that is just empty space, but in my county, they don't keep copies of the plans. The top of that area does not go all the way to the ceiling and seems to be topped with wood. My husband wanted to pry off a piece of the paneling from the back side of the wall, and I refused to have him touch my cedar paneling with anything he could damage it with because he definitely would. So, I guess we are going to try to take the top off of that part of the area and look down into it. Very strange. There is no reason that I can imagine that there would be plumbing or the like in there. Puzzled... Betsy At 10:36 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote: >Betsy, > >Please do let us know what you come up with to do with the mixer. I >love mine, but none of my cabinets are tall enough to hold it. By >the way, I advise adjustable heighth shelves in kitchens. sigh I >just wish the guy who put mine together had thought of these things. >Did I mention that my cabinets all look really nice. :) > >Jennifer > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dale Leavens >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:16 AM >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Kitchen Remodel and Kitchen Aid cabinet > >Good morning Betsy, > >My sister had a device in one of her kitchens which sounds something >like what you want. It was a platform, in this case probably 16 by >12 inches mounted on a series of levers and springs not unlike those >you might see for supporting a computer keyboard under a work >surface. You open the cupboard door and this thing swings out and up >on the levers and counterbalancing springs until it came up level >with the counter top. I suppose it would serve the purpose you had >in mind. This device was in her kitchen and she never liked it >because it used up the entire cupboard cavity and she didn't have >the sort of device she would want to put there. > >At the time it never occurred to me that it might serve home for a >big mixer, I never tested it to determine if it might carry anything >that heavy. > >One concern I would have is that door has to remain open while the >platform is in use. I am pretty sure I would forget it being there >and do myself an injury. > >Keeping something like a big mixer off of the surface when not in >use though would be appealing, one only uses such a machine only >occasionally, Few of us would use it even daily. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Betsy Whitney >To: blindhandyman-yahoogroups.com >Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:14 AM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Kitchen Remodel and Kitchen Aid cabinet > >Aloha All, >I hear tell that there is a cabinet designed to hold a kitchenaid >stand mixer. From what I can tell, it has some sort of a shelf in a >pull-out cupboard and the shelf is on a spring that lifts the mixer >up when pull open. I would love to get the mixer off of my counter, >but wonder if anyone has one of these or has seen one. The mixer >weighs about thirty pounds so I don't like having to move it around >to clean. Thanks, Betsy > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
