I've been dealing with this cabinet since I moved in 10 years ago. It never had doors and for some reason I always thought that the vertical piece of wood was structural. It's not. In fact it's a royal pain in the neck to have to always work around it when you are looking for something. Once this dawned on me, I've been itching to take it out. How hard could it be?
It's screwed in and it's easy to access the screws. Only problem is they aren't regular screws. Turns out they are square. And since I couldn't figure that out in spite of sticking my head in there, I decided to saw through it.
When I was able to examine the screws more closely I could find the right head in my ratcheted hand-held screw driver. And of course once that little mystery was solved, the top of the slat came off easily.
And even though that board in the middle is such a small thing, I am so happy it's gone!
The cabinet needed some serious cleaning though, as you can imagine.
Everything was wiped down, organized and returned to it's rightful spot.
It worked so well I'm going to do the same to the bottom cabinet with the pots and pans. Most of my pots and pans are wider than the opening and I'm forever twisting and turning them to get them out the cabinet doors. It will be so nice to just lift them out!
