The Good, The Bad, & The FABULOUS: It’s a New Range!

Yes, here at the Oaks house we are celebrating the much anticipated arrival of our NEW RANGE!!! Okay, so this was probably only much anticipated by me and my Mom, who always said we need a new one. I think Nick was excited about it as well, but not as much since he would be the one installing it.

Now I know some are you are asking- Did the old Range die? What happened? Well, I am somewhat sad to say that I was never able to will the old Range to die. The old Range (picture below) was original to the house as was the dishwasher when we moved in almost 4 years ago. I was able to will the dishwasher to die, forcing its replacement. BUT the range was stubborn and hung in there and “we” ended up literally dragging it out of the house, and when I say we I mean Nick.

Here it is the Old, Ancient, and detested RANGE. This pic was actually taken on the day we closed on our house. That is the original dishwasher in the picture as well. Ohhh how far we have come! This range did serve me well for 4 years, but I will not miss it’s unlevel burners and yucky pans.

So without further ado, the NEW RANGE . . .

It is a stainless steel Whirlpool! It self cleans, steam cleans, has a 5th warming burner and 1 expandable dual zone burner. I LOVE IT. So far everything functions perfectly, and it makes a huge difference in the look of my kitchen. Now if I could just get rid of my dusty rose counter tops!

A huge Kudos to the sales girl at hh gregg who sold it to us. We had never made a purchase at hh gregg and they were super helpful. We had originally planned to make this purchase at Best Buy, since we had Best Buy points. However, the day we went to look I did not see the one I had picked out online and no one ever offered to help us. So we left and headed across the street to hh gregg just to look around. We walked in, the girl asked us if she could help, I said we need a range that is stainless and self cleaning, and she took us straight to this one. Here is the best part it was ON SALE! I had not looked at anything with a warming burner due to the cost, but this one was the same price as the one I had picked out online at Best Buy that did not have the warning burner. SCORE!

Praise the Lord for handy husbands! We picked the range out and ordered on a Friday and they were going to deliver it on Monday. So Nick came home and began the process of getting the old range out and prepping for the new one. He worked very hard on all of this with little help for me and I really appreciate it.

Here he is making the final push to get the new range in!

So I know some of you are wondering, what was our first meal out of the new range? Well, we did not get everything in till late Monday and I had actually already had dinner so I whipped up something quick for Nick . . .