Kitchen Remodel

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Don't get Thermador. All my appliances are Thermador and they gave me nothing but trouble, just say no.

I have four gas burners, a grill, and a griddle. Don't get a grill, you can grill outside. I'd rather have a larger griddle, that thing comes in handy for everything. Definitely put your interest in a griddle because that's what you're going to use the most.

Good advice. I have a Thermador double oven now and she thinks it's great but I've heard the damn things can burn down your house when you run the self-clean option so I don't do that unless I'm hear to watch the stupid thing. Plus, now that you mention it, I don't recall why but about a year after I bought it (it's about 6 years old now), I had to have a service call on it. Fuck Thermador.

If I put the stove top to the left of the sink, I'm limited in how big I can make it. If I put it on the right, I've got more room to maybe add a griddle. I have a griddle pan (a couple) that I use all the time--I just lay it across two burners now.

My husband looked at the picture with the 6 seats (which I'm still having a hard time picturing that weird T-shaped counter/seating arrangement) and said "why don't we just put a table there instead"? We could do that--it's basically the same U shaped arrangement we have now just bigger. What we were trying to address though is people tend to just lean on the counter and talk to me while I'm cooking (which is annoying as fuck but that's what they do) so she was trying to provide seating for the bastards. Nobody sits at our current kitchen table and talks to me; they have to be at the counter, in my face.

HotD, we have a dining room and right now (except for the flooring in there) it wouldn't change. I can seat 8-10 in there pretty easily but it's not used very often. I like the table/chairs/buffet I have in there (it's recycled barn wood--lots of character) but the whole set up isn't very comfy. With a change of furniture in there, I think the dining room could be made much more inviting than it is now.

Duchess...French doors! I'm not sure if I'll do it in this remodel but yeah, we could definitely replace that slider with French doors. We also have a big window in our dining room--I've thought about getting rid of that and putting in French doors there to allow additional access to the back yard. The designer thinks we're fortunate--our back yard is pretty big (by California standards) and private. She doesn't think we need drapes or anything on our slider/back windows.