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It's not that obsessed with knobs, I just know motherboards fry up so quickly.
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Yk, Jen, you might also consider installing two separate single units. I use my bottom unit much less than my upper, so if my kitchen were bigger, I might consider replacing the double with a single oven and single microwave, and then you could replace a bottom cabinet with a second single oven. This way, you could maybe go higher end for your primary unit (convection?) and lower end for your second. They wouldn't have to match necessarily because they wouldn't be right next to each other.
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JennGM wrote:
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Absolutely, which is why I like my older appliances 
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Lindsay -- yes, I do see what you mean . . . That does seem like a very workable space, but definitely not without its challenges. I would love to see a "now" photo, especially to get a glimpse of your cabinet color. And I adore your old one. I'd move right into that house, especially if some more of my kids had already moved out!
Mom's cabinets had been lime green. When my parents bought the house, the kitchen was lime green cabinetry (and most of the kitchen is metal cabinets) with black-and-white striped paper. She did have some terra-cotta patterned wallpaper in there for years which was nice, but I really, really, really like the pale golden-cream walls with matching cabinets (and whoever the guy was who did the professional re-enameling did a fantastic job. Ah, to have that budget . . . ). She just replaced what was probably a 1950s gas cooktop last year, and the ovens are the ones that came with the house, also probably 1950s and still going strong. I would love to have double ovens, but I'd have to remake my kitchen completely to have a place for them.
Yes to the motherboards, too. All my appliances are old except for the KitchenAid dishwasher, which we bought two years ago. I think at this point we're on motherboard #4. Otherwise a great dishwasher . . .
All this kitchen redo talk is fun. I honestly don't know what I'd change about my kitchen if I really had carte blanche -- or what I'd choose to change first if I had to choose, and I wasn't just replacing something broken. Having just entirely rebuilt our front porch this year, we'll be loving our kitchen as is for some time to come. (but man, ask me about my porch! way to make me happy! but that's another conversation). My kitchen is very much not an "in" kitchen -- no island, no au courant countertops or appliances -- but I do love it. It's big and open (a previous owner who still lives in the neighborhood told me she used to keep a rocking chair in the kitchen), with room for a large table, bookshelves, and gathered people. But the cheapo cabinets probably won't last that much longer. Already we have one door that falls off continually, because the younger kids use that lower cabinet as a ladder to climb up to the higher one for things. I can see our having to think about that sometime in the not-too-distant future . . .
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CrunchyMom wrote:
| Yk, Jen, you might also consider installing two separate single units. I use my bottom unit much less than my upper, so if my kitchen were bigger, I might consider replacing the double with a single oven and single microwave, and then you could replace a bottom cabinet with a second single oven. This way, you could maybe go higher end for your primary unit (convection?) and lower end for your second. They wouldn't have to match necessarily because they wouldn't be right next to each other. |
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I priced installing two single new ovens, though, and it's more expensive.  You can get double ovens where only one is convection or neither.
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Angel wrote:
CrunchyMom wrote:
| Yk, Jen, you might also consider installing two separate single units. I use my bottom unit much less than my upper, so if my kitchen were bigger, I might consider replacing the double with a single oven and single microwave, and then you could replace a bottom cabinet with a second single oven. This way, you could maybe go higher end for your primary unit (convection?) and lower end for your second. They wouldn't have to match necessarily because they wouldn't be right next to each other. |
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I priced installing two single new ovens, though, and it's more expensive. You can get double ovens where only one is convection or neither. |
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Unless you could go with a used appliance for one of them?
I have not done it myself, though I looked when I thought my dishwasher was doomed, and older appliances are SO affordable!
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CrunchyMom wrote:
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CrunchyMom wrote:
| Yk, Jen, you might also consider installing two separate single units. I use my bottom unit much less than my upper, so if my kitchen were bigger, I might consider replacing the double with a single oven and single microwave, and then you could replace a bottom cabinet with a second single oven. This way, you could maybe go higher end for your primary unit (convection?) and lower end for your second. They wouldn't have to match necessarily because they wouldn't be right next to each other. |
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I priced installing two single new ovens, though, and it's more expensive. You can get double ovens where only one is convection or neither. |
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Unless you could go with a used appliance for one of them?
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Maybe if you could do a used one, but new - no. I was sort of put out to discover that, too, because I think it would be so much easier in my kitchen to put two wall ovens side by side under a cooktop.
The thing about wall ovens is that they have a smaller volume than kitchen ranges. With my large family, I really need the double oven. But if you have a smaller family, you probably have more options. You could slide a single wall oven in under your cooktop, for instance, which would save space and money vs. the double wall oven. On the other hand, you have to weigh that against how often you cook big dinners for holiday time, entertaining, etc.
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