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If you think your kitchen looks like a wreck, wait until I post a pic of what mine looks like right now. I took the cabinet and open shelving and microwave / hood above my sink and stove down to replace the visual mess with something sleeker. I only got halfway: taking everything down, and installing the new hood (Whirlpool for IKEA Luftig) into the cabinet to be hung up. This involved sawing a hole in the cabinet floor to fit stuff in, and adding filler wood and whatever. Of course it didn't go as planned, and I am improvising like crazy. I hate the hardware world.

This did lead to an interesting rediscovery: everything was attached into the drywall with 4" or so screws without anchor plugs. The screws seem to have been screwed directly into the drywall, and no, not into the studs behind the drywall either. Just the drywall, which, incidentally, is double thickness and supported by metal studs 20" apart. Yet everything was just hanging off these screws. This included shelves with all my dishware. I didn't know you could do that, fasten hanging objects to drywall without drilling holes first for anchors.

I don't trust it. I am drilling anchors tomorrow when I hang the rail to hang the new cabinets from. Well, Friday.