Just in time for Thanksgiving, we made the final (for now) improvement to our previously outdated kitchen. We replaced our dishwasher and refrigerator this summer, and my plan was to have a new oven by Thanksgiving. That happened -- barely!
Our old oven was very old and it was the cursed drop-in kind that are very hard to find now, and when you do find them, they're ugly. (A funny aside: our first house had a drop-in oven too and we also had to replace it.) We wanted to really make the kitchen look updated, so we did a bunch of legwork to find the right way to do it. Regular ovens are 30" wide; ours was 27", so that would have meant cutting cabinets and losing the use of drawers just to put in a "normal" oven. One handyman made a great suggestion of replacing the current drop-in oven with a wall oven and a separate cooktop. Because of that brilliant idea, we rewarded him with the job of making it work.
And, he did! He finished up on Wednesday, a couple hours before I had to bake my pies (and I tried a new crust recipe with vodka that was fabulous, by the way). Now we have an oven that doesn't burn everything you put in and burners that take much less than 20 minutes to boil water.
1 comment:
It looks sleek and lovely!
Vodka pie crust? Do tell.
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