How hard is it to turn a door into a wall and match cabinetry? [View all]
We're looking for a house for my mom and I've found one that is almost perfect. It's block construction (which helps in Phoenix), a good size, had gorgeous cabinetry and great entertaining space, with a garage and lots of parking. (Also it's on an enormous, flood irrigation lot, so she has both trees and space for an eventual studio or guest house or RV parking for her friends.)
What it doesn't have is a dishwasher, which she wants/needs. (She is slightly disabled, having suffered severe nerve damage to one arm, so doing dishes means breakage.) however, there is a doorway next to the stove which is beside the sink, so my thought is to make the doorway a wall, move the stove over, run the electric for the dishwasher and replace the countertops. The doorway is unnecessary, since the kitchen has 2 other entries. It also has gorgeous custom cabs that we would have to match over the new stove placement.
Mom is in the trades, so our costs are basically materials and labor, and her materials cost will be low since she has lots of reuse options available. (She's got 45 linear feet of granite sitting in her warehouse that was pulled from a remodel; she can have it for $150.)
Is making the doorway into a wall difficult?
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