My New Stove

[DianaB]

It was definitely time to change to a new stove. The old one had a bad touch pad and we had to plug it in and out when we wanted to use the oven and light the burners with a lighter. After I cleaned the oven a while back the oven wasn't cooking right so I said, Enough is enough!!!! And so I got a new stove. I also told myself that I didn't have to have two ovens or a top of the line stove, but all of that went right out the window when I started looking at all of the features!!! It has the two ovens and one of them is a convection oven so that will be interesting to use. Also I've never had the glass top so I'm hoping that it will be easy to keep clean! Anyway, here it is-----

[Dobie]

So - what are you going to cook as your first meal? It should be something very exciting and exotic to break in the new oven!!

[goofywife]

Diana, I love it. I wish I had a double oven. I may have to bring my Thanksgiving dinner over to your house to cook!

[katcarasella]

Diana,
I haven't seen so many buttons on anything since the last time I was on an airplane and took a peek inside the cockkpit.
I got intiminated just looking at all those buttons:eek:
Seriously, it is gorgeous and I like your kitchen too:)
(How long did it take you to read the instruction manual for that puppy?)

[DianaB]

So - what are you going to cook as your first meal? It should be something very exciting and exotic to break in the new oven!!

While my daughter, Dae Lynn, was here yesterday she tried a new cake recipe out in it! Right now I have a roast cooking for supper.

Diana, I love it. I wish I had a double oven. I may have to bring my Thanksgiving dinner over to your house to cook!

Go ahead and bring it over and just plan on being here for the rest of the day too!!

Diana,
I haven't seen so many buttons on anything since the last time I was on an airplane and took a peek inside the cockkpit.
I got intiminated just looking at all those buttons
Seriously, it is gorgeous and I like your kitchen too
(How long did it take you to read the instruction manual for that puppy?)

Yes, there are a LOT of buttons. The buttons on the left side run the top oven and the buttons on the right run the bottom oven and the ovens can do different things! As far as reading the manual.....I'm sure that it's going to have to be looked at everytime I bake something for quite a while. I'll probably have to laminate the manual!!! :sidesplit: I have a feeling that it's going to be used a LOT!!!!! (Kat, I'll let you know if it ever tells me that it's ready for take-off!!!)

[Tink]

Oh Diana, how nice!
I have a smooth top range but only a single oven. I love the smooth top as it's so nice to clean up. I'd like the second oven too I think...

I hope you get to enjoy it for MANY years.

[Janet]

Diana it's beautiful!!! I would love to have two ovens around the holidays. You did good on this one.

[Marilyn]

Wow!! I hadn't seen one with two ovens!! That's really nice. I have two ovens, but one is a wall oven and the other is in the stove. Yours is much better utilization of space!! Hope you enjoy this for very many years!!!

[Gina]

Diana what a beauty, to have two ovens wow.. Glad that you enjoying cooking, so happy cooking to you ! lol good luck.

[Forgivenmom5]

I'm happy for you Tink. That is a very nice stove.

[AngieDoogles]

How pretty Diana! I'd LOVE to have a stove like that!

So whatcha cookin'?

[Janet]

Diana, I came back to look at the pictures of your stove again and I want to get flooring and backsplash tile like you have. It's so pretty. Our kitchen is similar in arrangement. I have a corner cabinet, drawer section, stove, drawer and door section like yours and then my refridgerator. Small world.

[AngieDoogles]

Diana, I came back to look at the pictures of your stove again and I want to get flooring and backsplash tile like you have. It's so pretty. Our kitchen is similar in arrangement. I have a corner cabinet, drawer section, stove, drawer and door section like yours and then my refridgerator. Small world.

That's how my kitchen is arranged as well! :)

[DianaB]

Diana, I came back to look at the pictures of your stove again and I want to get flooring and backsplash tile like you have. It's so pretty. Our kitchen is similar in arrangement. I have a corner cabinet, drawer section, stove, drawer and door section like yours and then my refridgerator. Small world.

Oh pooey!!! I just had this all written out and lost it!!!!:mad:

My tile floor is actually vinyl tile. It's laid square by square like tile but it has the feel of vinyl flooring. I really like it and I have quite a bit of it in the house. Whatever isn't carpeted is this flooring.

The back splash isn't anything very special, just square tile with a toupe line running through it. My contractors were so conservative that they fussed about that little line of tile. They didn't like spending money on extra stuff. They were great guys!! Anyway, the tile is the same as I have around the bathtub only it has a white line on it. I think that you'll be really surprised at all of the tile that is made now. There's some really beautiful pieces that are so much more decorative than what I've got.

Isn't that funny that our kitchens are so similar? I'm going to have to pull up your house pictures and look at it again!!!

Anyway, here's the pictures that shows my bathtub so you can see it with the white line.

http://www.4womentalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3413&highlight

[Janet]

I love it!!! Can I ask why you went with individual pieces of vinyl tile instead of a roll? Just curisous.

[DianaB]

I love it!!! Can I ask why you went with individual pieces of vinyl tile instead of a roll? Just curisous.

We were looking for something was was extremely durable. I was actually looking for something like you see in the grocery stores!!! Our contractors had laid this in the church that they went to and really liked it so they brought a square over for us to see. My husband threw rocks on it and did all kinds of things to it to see if it would last. With my husband being a farmer we have lots of dirt and my floors really take a beating! The vinyl fooring I had at my last home had little cuts from dropping knives and wasn't in good shape at all so we wanted something that would last. I do have some scratches on the floor from rocks getting underneath the bar stool legs and then dragged across the floor and I noticed a little spit that that's peeling (my husband dropped his pliers on the floor and it made a spot) but that's not too back for 9 years!! The only places where I have carpet is my living room and the bedrooms. All the rest of it is this flooring and I have a lot of it!!

Cost wise it was more expensive than tile to buy but was cheaper to lay than tile and if we ever have to we can replace just one square, like tile.

[Janet]

But why the individual pieces? Is it so you can replace just a piece instead of the whole floor? Do they make a heavy duty type in a roll?

Can you tell I'm wanting to do some different things around here? I like getting advice from ones that actually know, have it, or are researching also.

I'm thinking right now of a type of laminate in my living room and down the hall. Not sure yet. I do like that vinyl tile idea.

[DianaB]

But why the individual pieces? Is it so you can replace just a piece instead of the whole floor? Do they make a heavy duty type in a roll?

Can you tell I'm wanting to do some different things around here? I like getting advice from ones that actually know, have it, or are researching also.

I'm thinking right now of a type of laminate in my living room and down the hall. Not sure yet. I do like that vinyl tile idea.

You should check into the Pergo floor covering. It looks like a wood floor and it's not too hard to put down. It would be so easy to take care of with you puppies and would look so much better than a vinyl floor.

[Janet]

I've heard of Pergo, so I will definitely check it out. Guess I should have read the last line of your post #16 and I would have known.

[HALEY]

very nice, now i can't wait to get mine! Soon as we get that tax rebate check, i'm getting a stainless steel one to match the fridge.. oh now i can't wait ! i can do the same as cash for 90 days. Hummm. I wonder if Mike is working this weekend?

[pope1982]

:eek: lovely kitchen, what time can I swing by to pick my new stove up? :confused:

[pope1982]

I might need to bring two trucks, I've got my eye on that living room set as well :friendship:

[DianaB]

:eek: lovely kitchen, what time can I swing by to pick my new stove up? :confused:

The one that I used to use is in the basement along with an old green vinyl covered couch. I suppose that you could have them but you'll have to cough up some money to get my good stove and couch!!!!! And I live in Kansas!!!

[Janet]

Diana's home is just beautiful! I want your house...you can have mine....lol

[DianaB]

You have a nice home too, Janet! You silly girl!!!

I waited too long to get my home and I put a lot of thought on the floor plan so to get me out you're going to need a lot of help and a crowbar!!!!!

[Janet]

We tried to put a lot of thought in our home when we built it, but we were way too young and didn't have enough married life to know what we truely wanted and needed. Sure wish we would have waited just a little while longer...but I do love my home for the most part.

[AngieDoogles]

We tried to put a lot of thought in our home when we built it, but we were way too young and didn't have enough married life to know what we truely wanted and needed. Sure wish we would have waited just a little while longer...but I do love my home for the most part.

That's one reason I'm glad we didn't buy a house right after getting married. We've had three apartments and each one was better than the last. We lived in PA for the first five months--I got homesick so we moved back. Our house there was hideous! That's all I'll say about that. LOL! We lived in our second place for 2.5 years, now we've lived here for a year. We moved from our second apartment to here because it started getting dangerous due to some less than ideal new neighbors. It was a decent place, but didn't have a w/d or dishwasher and not enough storage at all. The layout wasn't the best either. But...We just love our current house! We knew exactly what we wanted/needed because of what we liked or lacked in our previous apartments. I really feel like we'll know what we want when it comes time to buy a house.

[Janet]

It's really good to wait, I think. We should have had more marriage and life experience to know what kind of household we were wanting. Plan the floor plan a little better. Now after 33 years, I would change so much. I'd really like to move, but no one else here does. Maybe someday.

[judy]

Now that's a stove! I'm so happy for you Diana - you love to cook. Enjoy it.