mudcat
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The place looks great Eddie! That is one of the best looking 4k kitchens I"ve seen. Glad to see you made it through Rita.
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AndyM
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Wow! What tremendous progress since the last pictures...
I wish I had your drive to get things done.
I wish I had your drive to get things done.
Bird
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( everything sanded off the ceiling must fall down )</font>
That's a great picture, Eddie. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif And I understand about making the most of small spaces. If I remember right, you said 1013 sq. ft. which is exactly what we had in our little 2 bedroom mobile home. This house we bought has 1294 sq. ft. air-conditioned, but is 3 bedroom with a nice big master bedroom which means the living room is really small! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif And it looks like black kitchen appliances are now in vogue; that's what we have, too. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Remember when it was "coppertone" and "avacado"? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Incidentally, I've always been an advocate of not having a dishwasher; hate those noisy contraptions, and hate repairing them, but of course my wife disagrees, so we've had Gaffers & Sattler, GE, Magic Chef, Maytag, Kenmore, and I'm not sure what else. But this house has a KitchenAid, black exterior, stainless steel interior, and I'd never know it was running if it weren't for the little red lights on the front. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
That's a great picture, Eddie. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif And I understand about making the most of small spaces. If I remember right, you said 1013 sq. ft. which is exactly what we had in our little 2 bedroom mobile home. This house we bought has 1294 sq. ft. air-conditioned, but is 3 bedroom with a nice big master bedroom which means the living room is really small! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif And it looks like black kitchen appliances are now in vogue; that's what we have, too. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Remember when it was "coppertone" and "avacado"? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Incidentally, I've always been an advocate of not having a dishwasher; hate those noisy contraptions, and hate repairing them, but of course my wife disagrees, so we've had Gaffers & Sattler, GE, Magic Chef, Maytag, Kenmore, and I'm not sure what else. But this house has a KitchenAid, black exterior, stainless steel interior, and I'd never know it was running if it weren't for the little red lights on the front. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
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<font color="blue"> Remember when it was "coppertone" and "avacado"? </font>
You can't leave out "harvest gold." /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
We bought all new Maytag appliances two years ago, with the intention of having them last for years. We picked out white for everything, so they should never go out of style.
You can't leave out "harvest gold." /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
We bought all new Maytag appliances two years ago, with the intention of having them last for years. We picked out white for everything, so they should never go out of style.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( And it looks like black kitchen appliances are now in vogue; that's what we have, too. )</font>
Stainless steel with fingerprints all over them have replaced coppertone and avacado as the next "why did we ever buy this" type of appliance. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif At least that's my own opinion. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
So your KitchenAid is quiet. My GE is pretty quiet too, but my Sharp microwave sounds like it's growling. It's mainly from vibration. I can put my hand on top of it and it reduces the noise about 1/2. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Stainless steel with fingerprints all over them have replaced coppertone and avacado as the next "why did we ever buy this" type of appliance. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif At least that's my own opinion. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
So your KitchenAid is quiet. My GE is pretty quiet too, but my Sharp microwave sounds like it's growling. It's mainly from vibration. I can put my hand on top of it and it reduces the noise about 1/2. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Bird
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Yep, Andy, "harvest gold" was what we had in the house we bought in '77.
And Jim, who knows what color will be in vogue next. I would never have suspected black as being a color of choice for kitchens. If it had been up to me, I'd have probably stayed with white. The new double wide mobile home we bought in '97 had a GE dishwasher. It lasted about 2.5 years before the pump began leaking and I learned that you can't just change the pump; the pump and motor come as one unit and cost enough that we just replaced it with a Maytag. The Maytag was quieter than the GE, but not even close to the quietness of this KitchenAid.
This place we bought is unusual in a number of ways. It has the KitchenAid cookstove and dishwasher and a Kenmore microwave over the range; all black and all "appeared" to be brand new, but no owners manuals. Sears is "selling" me the manuals for the Microwave, but KitchenAid promptly sent manuals at no charge for the range and dishwasher. And all these things are at least 5 or 6 year old models. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif We've learned that the last two owners of the place were single men, and apparently they never did any cooking. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
And Jim, who knows what color will be in vogue next. I would never have suspected black as being a color of choice for kitchens. If it had been up to me, I'd have probably stayed with white. The new double wide mobile home we bought in '97 had a GE dishwasher. It lasted about 2.5 years before the pump began leaking and I learned that you can't just change the pump; the pump and motor come as one unit and cost enough that we just replaced it with a Maytag. The Maytag was quieter than the GE, but not even close to the quietness of this KitchenAid.
This place we bought is unusual in a number of ways. It has the KitchenAid cookstove and dishwasher and a Kenmore microwave over the range; all black and all "appeared" to be brand new, but no owners manuals. Sears is "selling" me the manuals for the Microwave, but KitchenAid promptly sent manuals at no charge for the range and dishwasher. And all these things are at least 5 or 6 year old models. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif We've learned that the last two owners of the place were single men, and apparently they never did any cooking. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> the last two owners of the place were single men, and apparently they never did any cooking. </font> )</font>
Hey Bird, some of us married men don't do a whole lot either.
I must admit that the B-B-Q and the smoker are still my responsibility though but I just can't compete with my wife in the kitchen so I don't even try. When she gets ill, she has to suffer my survival style cooking. It's usually a very good incentive for her to get better FAST.
Personally, I think the guy who invented "oven-ready French fries" ought to nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Hey Bird, some of us married men don't do a whole lot either.
I must admit that the B-B-Q and the smoker are still my responsibility though but I just can't compete with my wife in the kitchen so I don't even try. When she gets ill, she has to suffer my survival style cooking. It's usually a very good incentive for her to get better FAST.
Personally, I think the guy who invented "oven-ready French fries" ought to nominated for the Nobel Prize.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( And it looks like black kitchen appliances are now in vogue; that's what we have, too. )</font>
Stainless steel with fingerprints all over them have replaced coppertone and avacado as the next "why did we ever buy this" type of appliance. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif At least that's my own opinion. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
So your KitchenAid is quiet. My GE is pretty quiet too, but my Sharp microwave sounds like it's growling. It's mainly from vibration. I can put my hand on top of it and it reduces the noise about 1/2. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif )</font>
Nah, they have the stainless cleaner, it's really super easy especially now that there's only adults in the house!
Stainless steel with fingerprints all over them have replaced coppertone and avacado as the next "why did we ever buy this" type of appliance. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif At least that's my own opinion. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
So your KitchenAid is quiet. My GE is pretty quiet too, but my Sharp microwave sounds like it's growling. It's mainly from vibration. I can put my hand on top of it and it reduces the noise about 1/2. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif )</font>
Nah, they have the stainless cleaner, it's really super easy especially now that there's only adults in the house!
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EddieWalker
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Thanks to all for the nice words.
With the inside liveable, I'm going to finsih up the exterior. My next project is the front porch.
It will be 12 feet wide and nine feet deep. I started with a ledger board attached to the house set at a 4 in 12 pitch.
I used 3 inch lag bolts every sixteen inches.
Eddie
With the inside liveable, I'm going to finsih up the exterior. My next project is the front porch.
It will be 12 feet wide and nine feet deep. I started with a ledger board attached to the house set at a 4 in 12 pitch.
I used 3 inch lag bolts every sixteen inches.
Eddie
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I set the ledger board location on what looked good to me. Kind of fit it in where I thought worked.
Anyway, since the ledger board is sort of in a random location, I needed to figure out where it lined up on the ground, so I used a string-bob. Marked the locations with a pencil and had my starting points to square up my porch.
Eddie
Anyway, since the ledger board is sort of in a random location, I needed to figure out where it lined up on the ground, so I used a string-bob. Marked the locations with a pencil and had my starting points to square up my porch.
Eddie
