"pennyaline" <nsmitchell@spamspamspamspamspamspamspameggandspam .com>
wrote:

>Elliott Plack, USAR wrote:
>> Thanks for all the feedback/criticism. First of all, I'm not rich or
>> anything, this question is just for personal interest. My family did
>> restore the kitchen lately and did get the aforementioned range in the
>> OP. However, I am not the "Head of Household" and I certainly don't
>> make key spending decisions. I like it a lot but I was just wondering
>> if the Viking competition is any different. I have to agree with Rod
>> about ventilation...
>
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>I remember watching This Old House back in the 80s and early 90s when
>starry-eyed home owners tried to install real commercial ranges in their
>erstwhile ramshackle houses. They routinely blew their budgets and utterly
>ignored the advice of contractors, registering only the oomph factor that
>these appliances could generate. It wasn't long before house fires
>attributable to these ranges were breaking out left, right and center.
>Oopsey daisy then, I guess. Shoulda listened when they had the chance, huh?.
>Oh well. I'm sure they learned nothing from the experience. Manufacturers
>learned a passle, though!
>
>FWIW, it was about this era of This Old House that featured the homeowner
>who wanted a butler's pantry and was willing to move heaven and earth to get
>it. He was warned away from it again and again on multiple grounds: it was
>an unnecessary space to create (no butler, no household tasks existed to
>which to devote a space of that nature... in short, no need for a space like
>that) that would cut masses of square footage from his kitchen and living
>areas, carpenters would have to replan rooms and rebuild walls and plumbing
>to accomodate it, it would put him severely over budget... No matter. The
>homeowner wanted a butler's pantry. He wanted one, damn it, and he laid it
>on the line with the production company and the contractors: it was his
>house, his money, and he was going to have what he wanted. When it was
>finished, he complained about the cost. He also complained about the useless
>pantry making the kitchen too small. Go figure.
>
>
Is this the same one who insisted on having a skylight put in which
did not make a dramatic improvement in the light in the stairwell, but
added much to the cost of the house?


--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)