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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small rowhouse with separate kitchen and dining.  Replacing cabinets and counters.  Deciding whether to knock down wall and create a counter.  Torn.  Know it will open up the room, make it brighter.  Can talk while cooking.  (Kitchen is pretty bright as it has a door and window with light coming in.)  But will cut down on my wall space on both sides.  Will have to forgo shelves in the kitchen and hard to figure out how to squeeze in small piano in dining room.  No other place in the house.  Everyone I ask thinks the obvious thing is to knock down the wall...[/quote]

You can salvage much of the lost shelving in the kitchen with some good planning.  You said you want to turn the torn down wall into a counter - so you'd still have just as much cabinet space below as you would have if you'd left the wall, right?  And then why don't you put 15" deep cabinets on the other side too - that's pretty normal. So instead of a 24 inch wide counter, turn it into a 40 inch wide cabinet.  Or if you're worried about eating up that much space into the living room, just do 15" deep cabinets on front and back of the new counter. By doing that, you'll essentially have as much cabinet space as you would have if you'd left the wall.

Also - I disagree with others recommendations that you drop cabinets from the ceiling too. This look is really heavy and looks dated (especially given the current trend of no upper cabinets at all), so I wouldn't do it unless you absolutely needed those extra cabinets. If you did it, I'd do totally open shelves hanging from the ceiling like this: http://www.houzz.com/photos/43593/Knollwood-renovation-midcentury-kitchen-denver

It doesn't solve your piano problem though....[/quote]

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