tinknutt said:
Robin, I looked at the pictures and have some ideas, but also want to show DH since he is the one who actually does the rebuilds and I just help. Wow you have a bunch of doors in the back section....where do they go?
Also what is to the left of the microwave? What type of counter tops do you have now?
Yup there are tons of doors in that tiny little space

There is a doorway on every wall of that 6 by 7 foot space. The doors were all actually on when we moved in. We removed two of them.
There is the door to the backyard (with the window in it, never use that door, always locked and opened maybe 2 or 3 times in 19 years), a door into the garage, a door into the kitchen and a door to go downstairs to the basement
There is the small pantry style cupboard and another closet that has a sloping wall inside (where the stairs go down) so it has a shelf at the top, a bar for hanging things and absolutely NO floor at all
If you look at the first picture you can see the French style or Garden style doors that open to the backyard. They are to the left of the microwave.
What kind of countertops......... UGLY green ones

Very durable though, put hot pots right on them, no problem
We have purchased a new stove and an over the stove microwave oven to go with it. So that microwave and the stand are not going to be needed anymore.
We might have a small problem with relocating the stove because the basement ceiling underneath is finished in solid drywall. Unless we can relocate the electrical hookup through the upstairs wall or maybe through the attic, we can't move the stove too far from where it is now.
The dishwasher we can move to the other side of the sink easily enough.