Bob, yes we remodeled a few times around our Superba portable. it was the same one in one of the current threads. I gave it to my wife in December 1983 as a Christmas present when we lived in out apartment. In August of 1984 we bought a 50's ranch house. It had a galley kitchen with no DW and no 24" cabinet. The base cabinets were all double wide ones. We changed the counters to new formica and refinished the real birch cabinets. We placed the two larger bases on one wall making 8 foot of usable counter space and sawed the smaller one in half so we could build the dw in next to the the sink i now had 8 foot on that side to. In March of 1997 we paid the house off and decided to gut the kitchen and get all new cabinets and counters. I got solid Hickory cabinets and Corian sinks and counters and built the KA back in. Alas the Fall of 1997, the motor burned out and we replaced it with a TOL Frigidaire Gallery which the top rack kept falling out so that was replaced in May 2006 with a Bosch. If this site was around in 97 I think I would have repaired the KA.
Mike