The picture below is of a similar cabinet, above the stove, but that has uses. I omitted to remember pix before I tore the doors off the other one...
So here's the situation: I had suddenly thought, ah, what if I take off those doors, I bet I can do that without much trouble, and then put some lovely American and other art pottery in there to just see and enjoy instead of looking at two closed doors with nothing behind them, that have been annoying me for years?
The idea of open kitchen cabinets, always appealing in the mags, is only good if you have presentable dishes in sets and well, that's the impossible dream. Taking the doors off my other cabinets would look like an explosion in an international mug factory. But this one I could do.
Pausing only to find the step stool, and locate a screwdriver, then start again on finding I needed a Phillips' head and the first one was a straight slot, I climbed up, very awkward to reach over the fridge but I did get the screws out of the cabinet and as hoped the entire door, hinge and all, came off with no sign it had ever been there.
Wiped it down, including the top of the fridge, which urgently needed someone taller than I to observe that it needed wiping, and at this point needed to leave for my meeting.
Home again, meeting successfully concluded, and I installed a few favorite pieces up there, safe from marauding cats, easy to see and enjoy all the time.
Herendt hound from Hungary, Boehm spaniel from NJ, German porcelain birds from I guess Germany, Trenton Delft bowl, lovely antique piece that, and two great Rookwood Pottery vases. And a pedestal from Rookwood, designed after the manner of, but not by, Shirayamadani. All lovely to see and much better than the previous view. And what I left on the shelves whence I took them in the living room. are all glass pieces, much happier together than mixed with ceramics.
And as usual, cost: $.0.00. I didn't charge for finding tools, unscrewing the doors, putting away all the doings afterwards.
However, I would like blogistas to consider what might be a good use for these doors?
They're in my outside storage area right now awaiting an inspiration. Note that I've preserved the screws, on the grounds that You Never Know. Never in my history have I actually used screws that I've saved like this, but, You Never Know.
