The wall cabinet doors were taken down
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15 Years Old Kitchen DIY Renovation of A Manhattan Condo – part 2 : Take It DOWN!

Ikea kitchen was on sale in the summer of 2017 so I finally went on ikea website and designed my kitchen and had the cabinets shipped to me. Ikea was designed for people who want to DIY their own kitchen so it was not so hard to design on the computer. However, they didn’t support Mac OS at that time. I hope they do now. I love that I can customize most of the parts of my kitchen so I built as many drawers as I can and inserted as many shelves as I can. Let’s see how I took down my old cabinets and put them on market for sale!

The wall cabinet were without doors and the roll-out drawers were laying on the counter top
1. I started the glass cabinet doors. After all the glass doors were down and then I moved on to the roll-out drawers of the base cabinets.
The wall cabinet was taken down and there was a long bracket shown. It was to support the cabinet.
2. After all the doors and shelves were down, it was time to take down the frame of the cabinet.
The wall cabinet was taken down and there was a long bracket shown. It was to support the cabinet.
3. After all the doors and shelves were down, it was time to take down the frame of the cabinet.
There is a vantilation on the wall
4. The vantilation that I will use for my ducting.
The microwave is anchored to the wall cabinet. There were shelves and books to support the microwave.
5. I needed to be creative to support my 60 lbs microwave before I uninstalled it.
There were brackets on the wall which were used to support the cabinets
6. The wall cabinets were all taken down.
There were brackets on the wall which were used to support the cabinets
7. The microwave was taken down and the cabinet above it.
The vantilation was exposed. The wall was ready to the new cabinets
8. Everything was taken down on the wall.