The kitchen remodel continues, and today we hit a major milestone: the delivery of my forever stove: The Thermador 48″ Pro Harmony. We bought it after looking for months at several different appliance companies and falling in love with the Thermador star burners (no, they haven’t sponsored my blog, but I still need a refrigerator, Thermador PR!) The star burners are over a porcelain easy-clean surface, the oven racks slide out on casters, and all the controls just feel amazing.
Installing this gorgeous machine took nearly all day, so by the time it was hooked up at 7:30 PM, we really only had energy to make scrambled backyard chicken eggs, but that was enough to learn that these burners heat significantly faster than our previous stove. Nothing burned, and they really were the best eggs ever. We’ll try to bake something a little more worthy of this stove’s inaugural run tomorrow, as well as posting some back-story as to how we got the gas line in place and the stove into the house.
We’re starting to get into all those projects we’ve been talking about doing since we moved into the house. in our walk through while considering the house, we commented that while the kitchen was huge, it only had about 3 linear feet of counter space. The Realtor said that she really didn’t understand why the seller had run the cabinets all the way down, but they had run the granite all the way to the wall, so we could always raise the cabinets if we wanted more space. In the six months we lived in the house before closing, we’d purchased a temporary center island from Ikea, and then customized it to fit our decor, but we still didn’t have much counter for big entertaining, and we were really short on counter with electrical outlet access.
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