Friday, December 25, 2009

Almost all my appliances and fixtures purchased

After a lot of musing about which of this or that I am going to put in my kitchen, I've finally committed. We are finalizing the cabinetry and have to be firm on what goes where.
  • Gaggenau 27" double oven in stainless steel;
  • Gaggenau 27" warming drawer (under ovens);
  • Gaggenau 24" warming drawer for my coffee cups and smaller items;
  • Bosch Integra refrigerator (x2) with freezer drawer and wood panels;
  • BlueStar 36" gas range, 6 burners & gas oven;
  • Dacor hood liner, 42" finished size with custom metal work;
  • Kohler Karbon wall-mount faucet for over the clean-up sink, deck-mounted for the prep-sink. Thinking I might actually do 2 wall-mounted faucets over the large clean-up sink. A bit indulgent, but it may work out;
  • Kohler Stages sinks, 33" prep sink (21" sink, 12" drainboard), 45" clean-up sink (33" sink, 12" drainboard);
  • Siemens dishwasher (x2) - basically a Bosch, with custom panels.
You may notice I gave up on the Asko dishwasher. Bosch has a great new fancy-pants dishwasher that is about $1600 discounted, has the 3rd rack like Miele and is super quiet (40 db when running) and is super energy efficient. But I found the Siemens dishwashers on sale at $799 each and they are 48 db. With 3 kids around, I don't think I'll notice the difference in sound.

Just about every single appliance I purchased has been recently discontinued so I bought them all heavily discounted. I think I got each and every appliance either online or from eBay. So I went nuts with all these appliances in large part because I got them all so cheap. I have 2 dishwashers, 3 ovens (2 electric, one gas), 2 warming drawers and 2 refrigerators. It's going to be a party kitchen. Meanwhile, my mom's garage looks like an appliance warehouse.

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