I'm on board with LadyLocust and moving the range. At first I was thinking you could switch it with the dishwasher, but it's probably best to put it across from the fridge. I don't like microwaves above the range though. It can be difficult for shorter people to reach. My sister has to use a stepstool in her house to use her microwave. I had trouble reaching it. It's not really friendly for aging-in-place either. I have mine on a counter, but I would rather have mine inside a cabinet.
I would also like to suggest seeing if you have any Barton's Home Outlet (aka Surplus Warehouse) stores in your area. Their unfinished oak cabinets are much better than what Lowes had to offer. Lowes' cabinets have particle board/mdf on the sides & broke easily. These have plywood but it's much more solid (I know bc we got a cabinet at Lowes and then got the rest at Surplus Warehouse). They even do military discounts there if you present your card.
These are the ones we got for my friend's house:
https://www.homeoutlet.com/product/unfinished-oak-cabinets
They did need some sanding and of course stain or paint. The base corner cabinet was superior to the ones from Lowes as well. Lowes had ones with curved sides so it was harder to square them up. The base corner from Surplus Warehouse does have to be bumped more forward so it lines up with other cabinets (so the back won't be against the wall). One of the nice things about the store (at least the one near me) is that you can ask them to pull them out & you can set them up together the way you would want them to go in your kitchen (just sort of lay them out in person).
They used to have a microwave cabinet. It was sort of like a Johnny Cabinet where it has doors up top and a big open shelf large enough for a microwave. We grabbed one off the shelf when we were getting cabinets for my friend. It does stick out more than other cabinets though. It allows you to place a countertop microwave on the shelf and if you wanted, you could lower the cabinet down so it could leave counter/prep space and be able to reach the microwave.
It's not recommended to have anything lower than 30" above the range's cooking surface. So, you could get a non-vented air-circulating vent hood with filters that mounts under a cabinet.
Not sure how much you want to spend, but while googling, I found this:
Oven Cabinet 33" x 84" Unfinished Alder
It looks pretty neat, but not sure if you would have room for it. You could probably add a shelf to put a microwave on and have prep space below- assuming it's not too deep for your kitchen.
(Did I mention I love looking at different cabinet styles?)
I hope it all goes well!
Mom was awakened by the cardinals again. She woke me up & wanted me to take her to the FedEx store to send a package from Amazon back (it was the wrong product). Halfway there she remembered she was supposed to get some sort of bar code & print it out but she hadn't received the text or e-mail (I think they tried to text but our landline # is listed instead of her cellphone) so we had me turn around. Then she changed her mind and wanted me to go to the post office. So I got mail and then popped in to Tractor Supply to get some cattle cubes in 50lb sacks. There must have been some problem with the bag-printing bc the bags were pure white with nothing but the tag with barcodes to identify the product. Employee wouldn't let me put them on the cart myself but once I checked out I was able to load them by lifting with my left arm. Got home, cut a bag open, and set it out for the cows. They came over and mosquitoes followed. Buggers bit me on the face.
I got mom to request the code via e-mail. She got the code but couldn't figure out how to fwd the e-mail to me. I went in and saved the file as a screenshot & walked her through ow to send it to me. I cropped it and printed it for her (she's connected directly through ethernet cable to the new router but our printer is wirelessly connected to our old router- not sure how to connect it to the new one). I was able to connect wirelessly through the old router to the printer to tell it to print. I happened to notice it was for UPS rather than FedEx.
So, we will make that trip tomorrow. I've requested that we stop at a craft store so I can peruse fabric.
My back is doing better now that I've been taking Magnesium.
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