I can cross number 2 from the last post off. I moved the cold-air return much lower to the floor and cut the wall to about half size. I just cut the wall shorter, but didn’t measure anything because I’m not sure how high, exactly, it should be. I’ll have to cut them down again later when I know how high the countertop will be.

Here’s how the wall looks now.

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I also just realized that it would probably be nice to have some hanging lights right over the countertop here. So I think I’ll run conduit to put another bit of track lighting where the wall used to be. Then I’ll get some pendant lights or something a little nicer to hang there.