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Default Kitchen Appliances and general redo
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> I'd recommend against the microwave over the range setup. Recently I took
> a tour of the model kitchens on the Virginia Tech campus. The woman
> giving the tour literally wrote the book on kitchen design, a textbook
> that is used in teaching kitchen design at the college level. Anyway,
> they had 6 or 7 example kitchens set up and only one had the microwave
> over range which she specifically said was there as a bad example.
>
> The microwave vents are generally not powerful enough, and then if the
> microwave breaks you lose your vent until it's fixed or replaced and
> there is no guarantee you'll find one that matches the space where
> the old one was. If you have no other space for the microwave, then
> it's better than nothing, but a dedicated vent will almost always
> be better.


I hate to hear this.
I really don't want to lose counter space to the microwave oven anymore,
and the cabinets have been organized and planned to the point I don't
want to go back to re-plan it again. Aren't there ANY decent
vent/microwave brands!??!?! AAaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggg!!
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