Oh, my GF would hate where that microwave is. What a cruel joke!
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Ah, you’ve tested that paint on something first, right?
From hard experience, it’s amazing how many gray paints look really blue when dry and in place. (I think we ended up giving an expensive can of “gray” concrete paint to the lady who bought our bird bath in the auction. It saved a trip to dispose of it.)
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Ah, it’s just a backdrop wall for the secret video project.
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My brother has a microwave oven under his kitchen counter. It pulls open like a drawer and you have to lift your dish out.
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I will likely (and reluctantly) join the TV over the fireplace club soon. I really want more seating to enjoy some movie nights with friends, but I have three walls that are sliding glass door, fireplace, and the TV wall. So the TV will have to move to over the fireplace (at least until I get the time and motivation to tear out that fireplace).
At least the microwave is in a normal place.
A place I stayed had the microwave on top of the fridge. Much soup was lost. And I’m tall.
Bad idea.
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Ours is under the counter as well in a cubby, I really like it there. Previous owners who re-did the kitchen set it up like that. They also made all the base cabinets with drawers (which we also had in our old house) and I am very thankful for that.
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Built in, roughly oven height, so I can reach directly into it would be perfect.
The ancient Amana Rad-A-Range my parents had an oven style front drop door and it was glorious. I’d pay a bit more for a built in microwave with a drop front door if I could sit things on them.
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I read that, and RadAway came to mind!
This reminds me of some new Class B (van) RVs where companies are putting microwaves that open with a door under the countertop - right next to the “dorm fridge.” I wish they used models like the one you described! Every time I see one, I imagine how many visits to the chiropractor would be needed to recover from repeatedly stooping down to keep hot liquids or food from splashing on the floor.
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If you don’t have a gas cooktop, it’s not as crucial of a repair.
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Confused, and need clarification: how is blue less desirable on a wall?
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Don’t joke! There’s a big crawlspace that I’ve never checked. (I sent in an inspector, and he came out, so it’s probably good.)
I might do that, but there’s this cabinet thing over the gas fireplace, that no one can figure out what it was for, that will probably need to be removed, but … I haven’t had a chance to investigate it yet. 
(Yes, this was the Plan B move.)
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When it’s supposed to be a grey garage floor, and it turns out kind of Robin’s Egg blue, in the light, and we painted out past the garage doors on the outside lip, and it really clashed with the garage door colour. (Better now, and besides, they bought the house.)
There seems to be something odd about grey paint, where the pigments used tip out of balance under certain light. (Don’t they just set the RGB values all the same? /s)
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Ah, yes, that makes a lot of sense!
Grays are notoriously hard to match. We think of them as being some combo of white & black, but there are always other colors lurking as well.
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I feel seen. Our microwave is under the counter, and has been for more than 15 years - game changer for us shorties.
@killick - yes, exactly like this, it was our one “splurge” for the kitchen remod we did in 2014. The old microwave was on a shelf under the counter where a completely useless “efficiency”-sized appartement dishwasher used to be.
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I saw one of these on some home reno show recently, and I wanted it!
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I don’t see the problem with a slightly elevated tv.
If you are on a chair or couch that reclines, I like a higher tv, as your line of sight is angled upwards.
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real estate is for buying and selling, not living in
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