Bye Bye Water Heater and Old Pantry

One of the biggest obsticals for our kitchen was to get the water heater outside.  The refrigerator and new pantry cabinets will be taking their places.

Brian, his dad, and our friend Nick spent the majority of a Saturday moving the water heater outside and finishing up the necessary plumbing.

The ancient pantry had these weird triangle shelves inside that were not even level.  Things fell out all the time.  I can't tell you how many bottles of Gringo Bandito hot sauce lost their lives on these useless things.  Some pretty groovy contact paper lined them as well.

The kitchen already seems so huge with this wall, pantry and water heater gone. 

Here's is the home of the new water heater.  We wanted the cabinet to be as small as possible because, let's face it, this thing is ugly.  So Brian is going to make a little addition piece on the bottom front for the temperature knob.  That's the only part that protruded out of the smallest cabinet we could make work.  After the kitchen is finished we plan to paint the exterior of the house.  This lovely cabinet will hopefully look less awful once it and the house have a new paint job.  At least it's not ugly-ing up the kitchen anymore!