Custom Vent Hood

While the over-the-range microwaves are great if you need to save on space, I really wanted a strong, quality vent hood. However, the traditional ones are boring looking and the fancy one's are too pricey, so I talked Taylor into creating a custom cabinet around our new vent hood. It took a lot of talking to convince him that this was a good idea. Once I got him on-board, he came up with the design and had it built in no time!
Here Taylor is on the roof cutting the new hole for the vent.

Here he is looking through the hole and you can see the framework for his cabinet.


(Notice that he's smiling in all these photos, but you know it hasn't been all giggles and grins! I'm leaving out all the angst!)

Now he's adding bead board for the cabinet finish. We will do something interesting with tile or metal on the front.