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Welcome back to Mushy's Home Improvement Show, where the mantra is: We're not crackheads!™ [disclaimer: we may eat food we find in drawers that has been there since 2000 but we won't smoke anything we find from the 1990's.]

On today's episode, we're preparing the kitchen for an overhaul. On the list of things that will happen either shortly or by the end of the summer: stripping and repainting the cupboards and cabinets; replacing the 42" stove and overhead cabinet with a 30" stove, 30" hooded microwave, and two 12" cabinets (floor will have a tray slide-out for pans, wall will have shelves for spices and such); replacing the laminant counter tops with granite tile; replacing the two-section stainless steel sink with a one-section ceramic-look sink; a serious green glass tile wraparound backsplash; rigging up lights over the new breakfast bar; replacing the flooring (though with what has not been decided).

Since this is the preliminary stage, there was measuring and shopping around and, oh, around 9pm, actually doing anything that resembled progress such as taking everything out of the cupboards and cabinets and putting it all into boxes, following Carson Cressley's advice and divvying said mess of items into Keep / Trash / Charity piles (how many loaf pans and casseroles does anyone need?), taking the drawers out of their slots and several layers of rancid old shelf paper off of the drawers and shelves, sorting through the spices and candy drawer to Keep or Trash things by age, and removing the knobs from the drawers and the magnet things off the cabinet doorways. There was also hunting for 9" cabinets, which was fun until I measured the spaces again and found that the standard width of appliances is 30", not the 36" which one interior designer had made blueprints around and I'd based my search on. 12" cabinets are everywhere and in order to make these new units match the not-at-all-snazzy cabinets I have I'm having some custom made for Ľ of the price of premade. Two nice green glass pendant lights were ordered from a cute little shop and should be in on Thursday.

Which brings us now to the Crackhead™ discovery of the day. I was taking down the contact paper in the cabinet over the stove (which wasn't really necessary since that particular cabinet is going bye-bye) and noticed how the vent for the present range hood looks. I'm not sure what the original homeowner from 1959 to the early 1990's had in the way of venting, but the next assclowns put a new range hood in. Which would have been fine, except that they replaced the vent pipe that goes from the hood to the vent hole cut in the ceiling. Which would have been fine had they used the same size pipe. What you are looking at in this photo is the ceiling end of their attempt to jerryrig a really fat pipe between the two ends. On the hood end, they cut a seam in the pipe and bent the thing inward, and slid it in the hood's spout. That part came out fairly okay. On the ceiling end, though, they basically went whacky with tin-snips and shoved jagged edges around, then tried to seal the gaping gaps with, I dunno, asphalt or something. No wonder everything in that cabinet (vegetable oils, vinegars, waffle maker, milkshake machine, George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, shelf paper...) was greasy, all the frying gunk was going straight into the cabinet -- not out the vent in the roof! The hooded microwave will be self-venting so I think the tubes can be removed, the hole in the ceiling covered, and the lower portion of the roof vent can be reworked to let the attic's summer heat out.

Nothing else stupid has been encountered, unless you count the several rancid layers of shelf paper, but I did pull an ancient Tupperware lid out of the back of a cabinet, from behind the wrap/bags drawer by the sink. I thought my mother was the only one who put Tupperware lids in a drawer...

That's all the time we have for this episode. Stay tuned for "Flip Off This House", followed by a very special episode of "Property Ladder" where Kirsten Kemp tells David Bromstad just how rediculous and un-saleable a home he's made color splashes and bric-a-brac embellishments to has become. Fur and feathers fly.

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