Appliances

We have spent hours at Home Depot and Lowe's. We have looked at kitchen cabinets, bead board, appliances, carpet, tile flooring, hardwood flooring, tubs, shower enclosures, toilets, interior doors, exterior doors, sinks. We have made lists, spread sheets, floor plans, etc.

Russ and I have spent a lot of time on Craigs List. Russ spends a few hours (at least) every weekday on the website.

We have also been to Appliance Smart, a store of scratch and dent appliances.

We found that we were going to spend (for the appliances we really wanted) about:

stainless steel fridge $1500 (retail $2600)

stainless steel gas stove $750

stainless steel microwave with vent-a-hood combo $250

gas dryer $600 (retail $1450)


Russ found a guy, in a seedy part of town (Kirby), that had several of the things we needed. So we went and looked at what he had available. We bought a fridge for $1100. And because we bought the fridge, he gave us a deal on the gas dryer he had - top of the line Whirlpool for $300. We also noticed that he had the microwave/vent-a-hoods and he sold us one of those for $80.

While he was writing up the ticket, Russ asked why he didn't have any stoves. He said they were hard to come by. But he had one gas stove that wasn't working properly and they couldn't firgure out what was wrong with it. Russ called him later in the week and told him that we would be happy to take it off his hands. He told the guy we'd either figure out what was wrong with it or we had a place to dispose of it. The guy called his partner and called us back and said he would give it to us.

So instead of spending about $3100 on appliances, we spent less than $1500. But we have to pay someone to fix the stove. The only thing we still need is a dishwasher. That can wait until we are ready to put in our cabinets (which I'll write about another day).

I wrote about this stuff, somewhat out of order, because we picked up all of this TODAY! We are SUPER excited!! :-)