2024 November continued...

     The kitchen needed a rangehood above the stove, so we bought the bunnings wall cabinet which is specially made for rangehoods, and also another smaller cabinet to fit in the gap next to it. These cabinets were so easy to assemble that I could do it by myself. Here are all the parts for the small cabinet.

Here is the assembled cabinet sitting below its final spot.

Here are both the cabinets assembled, sitting on the floor.

There was an awkward mini gap between the cupboards, so we custom made our own mini spice rack.

Here is a photo of the box for the range hood.

2024 December - This photo shows the two cupboards after they have been screwed into place on the wall above the stove. You can also see the rangehood has been installed, it is the blue part with the white part above it. You can also see the silver flue which is coming out of the rangehood and exiting out through the wall to outside. You can also see the square hole which was cut into the back of the cupboard so the wiring could come through the wall. This will be a powerpoint that the rangehood directly plugs into, when the electrician comes back to finish the job. You can also see the black power cord from the rangehood sitting there ready to go. We can plug the rangehood in and use it if we want, we just need to run an extension cord over to it. You can see another square hole in the wall under the left side cupboard with wires sticking out of it, this is going to be another power point.

2025 January - The doors for these cupboards are ready to be painted.

Four coats of paint later, and the cupboard doors are now black.

We used the Bunnings Kaboodle Hettiche hinges, expensive but apparently the best ones.

Here are the three doors installed and looking great. You can see we have put some spices in our mini-spice shelf!

The final touch is the 'push to open' magnetic spring latch. We love using these and it means that the cupboard doors don't need any handles.

Next time I'll show the picture of the outside of the rangehood exhaust. Josh did an amazing job!