The old saying when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. In our case the lemon is that our hot water heater sprung a leak and the lemonade is moving our washer and dryer out of the kitchen and into their own space. In addition we will be converting the area where the washer and dryer were into a walk in pantry for the kitchen.
Pardon the mess but here is our staring point. The space wasting laundry room under the stairs and the hot water heater tucked into the back. One major issue is getting the stacked washer and dryer out because of the small opening. The dryer needs to be lifted off the washer then the washer pulled out then the dryer can come out then finally we can pull the hot water heater.
A good friend of ours came over to help get the washer and dryer out so I could put in the new hot water heater. We opted to go with a 50 gallon model vs the 40 just to give us a little more hot water.
Out with the old
In with the new
We still have some work to do to finish the pantry area we moved a cabinet and a small wire rack into the space to clean up the kitchen. I also modified a set of bi fold doors into french doors to close the space off and hide the pantry area. The plan is to add permanent shelving in an L shape to make better use of the space.
There seems to be a good amount of space between the end of the cabinets and the doorway into the dining room. stay tuned for parts 2 and 3.
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