We purchased two new appliances before doing any other remodeling. The fridge came first, purchased because we got a great deal on a floor-model at Lowes. It's a side by side and after a few days we're still hunting for things and adjusting the temperature. It has water and ice in the door and I'm still opening it to get ice from the bin - because it's quicker - and getting water from the sink - for the same reason.
We took down an upper cabinet to fit the taller fridge in, and it's a counter-depth fridge. The combination of those two small things seems to make the room seem oddly larger.
My father-in-law helped move the old fridge down to the basement, where it replaced an old stand-up freezer. The freezer is going to a friend at church.
The new stove arrived yesterday and my pastor and another friend helped with the gas hookup. As I previously posted, it's a Chinese-made NXR and seems to be very high quality. It arrived in pristine condition - something I worried about after having it shipped from California.
I was also concerned about it fitting as it claimed to be a full 30" wide, but it squeaked into the old opening no problem.
I'm currently running the oven at the highest setting to burn off the protective oil that kept it from rusting on the Pacific crossing. It smells catastrophically bad and set off the smoke detector once so far. It also is making the microwave very hot on the bottom (the oven vents out the short backsplash at the back). The manual requires 30" above the stove to the vent hood, but a micro-hood is what we have, and it's around 18" up.
We took the old electric range to church to replace the old-and-broken one in the basement kitchen. My kids helped clean it up in preparation.
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