I can't hear a thing
I'm making little headway in cleaning up the house and putting somethings in the kitchen. I don't want to pile a lot of stuff in drawers if the workers need to do some stuff I don't know about. However, I did do the first load of dishes.
I loaded the dishwasher, hit the buttons (Normal/Hot Dry/On) and closed the door. I waited. Nothing seemed to happen. I shook my head in disgust. Why wasn't it working? Just as I was about to open the door I heard the faintest "click." Still I heard nothing. It was only when I put my ear close to the door did I hear water swishing around. They told me this dishwasher was going to be quiet. But I couldn't believe this thing.
Our old dishwasher - original equipment in our 15 year old house - was a monster. It roared. It clanked. I usually washed dishes by hand just to avoid having to hear it. The new machine is too cool. Also, I have never seen the glasses this clean.
We decided to go with Kitchen Aid appliances. When a Viking or Wolf oven proved too expensive for the budget, we searched for a manufacturer that made entire kitchen sets. (This is my quirk. For example, I insist on having a matched set of golf clubs. I believe the reason I can't hit my my 3-wood is because it is a Calloway rather than a Titleist like the rest of my clubs.) KitchenAid got high scores from the material we read. They also made a four-burner gas/convection oven with the warming drawer I wanted.
People asked me why I went with a four-burner rather than a six-burner oven. Two reasons. First — it would have been too large. We would have lost cabinet space to make room for it. Secondly, this is a home kitchen. I'm not opening a restaurant here. It's just Judy and I. Rarely have I ever had all four burners going at once. If I got into a pinch, there is always the gas grill just outside on the patio. That's also why we didn't get a second oven — we already have one. The gas grill can be used as an oven in a pinch and it's side burner offers me a fifth burner if I needed one.
Speaking of the oven, that should be ready to use tomorrow. Fingers are crossed.
I loaded the dishwasher, hit the buttons (Normal/Hot Dry/On) and closed the door. I waited. Nothing seemed to happen. I shook my head in disgust. Why wasn't it working? Just as I was about to open the door I heard the faintest "click." Still I heard nothing. It was only when I put my ear close to the door did I hear water swishing around. They told me this dishwasher was going to be quiet. But I couldn't believe this thing.
Our old dishwasher - original equipment in our 15 year old house - was a monster. It roared. It clanked. I usually washed dishes by hand just to avoid having to hear it. The new machine is too cool. Also, I have never seen the glasses this clean.
We decided to go with Kitchen Aid appliances. When a Viking or Wolf oven proved too expensive for the budget, we searched for a manufacturer that made entire kitchen sets. (This is my quirk. For example, I insist on having a matched set of golf clubs. I believe the reason I can't hit my my 3-wood is because it is a Calloway rather than a Titleist like the rest of my clubs.) KitchenAid got high scores from the material we read. They also made a four-burner gas/convection oven with the warming drawer I wanted.
People asked me why I went with a four-burner rather than a six-burner oven. Two reasons. First — it would have been too large. We would have lost cabinet space to make room for it. Secondly, this is a home kitchen. I'm not opening a restaurant here. It's just Judy and I. Rarely have I ever had all four burners going at once. If I got into a pinch, there is always the gas grill just outside on the patio. That's also why we didn't get a second oven — we already have one. The gas grill can be used as an oven in a pinch and it's side burner offers me a fifth burner if I needed one.
Speaking of the oven, that should be ready to use tomorrow. Fingers are crossed.
posted by Dan Macdonald at
9:27 AM
2 Comments:
What process did you go through to pick your designer/remodeler? Did you check with multiple companies, go with a recommendation of friends, etc.? Was the design process pretty straightforward? Any surprises?
These questions and more will be answered when the project is finally finished.Hopefully that will be sometime next week.
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