We are gutting our kitchen on Saturday. The guy we have building the cabinets came in pretty reasonable, less than we thought but the appliances ...holy sh!t. The refrigerator and freezer won't be in until February at the earliest. The wife had to have a steam oven, even though she never used a steam oven so we had to design with wall mount ovens instead of just using a range...which is fine because the drawings look awesome but the two wall mount ovens are double what a range would cost...and then we had to buy a cook top.
One thing we learned. Sharp makes all the drawer style microwaves. Every one of them. They have the patent. What they did was genius. They don't brand theirs. There's no Sharp badging on it. That way when you have a kitchen full of Wolf or Viking, or whatever, you buy the Sharp microwave in the same finish and it's 1500 bucks vs the 3500 the other brands charge you for the badge premium.
