Thursday, February 9, 2012

What Is Behind Those Walls?

What can possibly lie in those innocent looking walls that tighten up our kitchen you may ask?  It started out by just cutting a hole in the sheetrock (see picture #2). Shortly this evolved into taking down the trim, deconstructing the walls, and eventually demo-ing the entire eat in area. 

 Soo---to answer the question: What does lie in these walls? Let's just say the plumbing for the rest of the house: water supply,  heat pipes, vent pipes, and main stack. Unfortunately for us, removing the pipe chases is key to our kitchen design. We're designing in a peninsula starting near where the garbage can is now. We need this precious space to have a good sized peninsula while still having a functional walkway. 


The current kitchen had two vertical pipe chases and a horizontal run of pipes hiding underneath. 

This is how it started. If you look closely we've got some sweet brass piping. You don't see that anymore.

Decorative pieces that framed out the wall...my guess is that they were the original kitchen cabinets and re-purposed. 

View looking up of the pipes that were hidden in the chase

Kitchen with some plumbing moved and new header.

No comments:

Post a Comment