All About Our Appliances – What We Chose, How We Integrated Them, And How Much We Love Them

Today’s post is all well-nigh the appliances we chose for our kitchen. I’ll requite you a tour inside each so you can get a sense of their topics and how functional they are so you can gauge whether or not they are right for you. Or if you aren’t in the market for appliances you’ll get to snoop inside my fridge:) I approached Build with Ferguson for this partnership considering I loved working with them in the past, I knew that they carried most of the appliances for the whole house that we wanted, and y’all, their showrooms are veritably spectacular. They are a one-stop shop for everything you need (and they have way increasingly than just appliances – faucets, lighting, flooring – anything to renovate, remodel, and plane a lot of decorative elements). For me, I like my appliances like I like my men – intuitive, easy, nice looking, and upper quality unbearable so they don’t unravel down. Unlike my men, I like them integrated or panel-ready if possible, or if we are going to see it – then ideally it’s a trappy feature. We unquestionably prefer less wedding and whistles than maybe some other families as our needs are relatively simple. Plus it’s a farmhouse, not an episode of The Bear and so we skipped some of the increasingly techy options there intentionally (which I get into later). I wanted the range to be the star (and it is) and the rest to be subconscious but this is all just a personal preference and only you know what is weightier for your family. We are EXTREMELY happy with all of them thus far, so let’s get into it.

The 48″ Aga Elise Induction Range

Now we shot a whole story for you well-nigh how cooking with induction and convection works, withal with some learnings so stay tuned on that. Increasingly and increasingly research is coming out FAST and nonflexible well-nigh gas ranges, with variegated states enacting increasingly regulations (including Oregon now), so if you are shopping for a range or are going to remodel soon, then induction is unconfined to think about. The long and the short of it is that we love this range very much and are extremely happy with our choice. THANK GOODNESS. I was nervous, not going to lie, and yes, there was a short learning lines on temperature and speed – as was assumed, just like switching to an electric car. But we are so happy with it. Not only is extremely stunning (which is very important to me) but cooking on it has been GREAT and way less of a rencontre to learn than I predicted. The quick concerns we had were well-nigh topics and cookware, and neither has proven to be a problem at all. Sure, we had to buy some induction non-stick pans, but all of my former soup pots work on this. Additionally, we had to buy smaller cookie sheets and often use two instead of one for large batches, but we knew that going into it and it’s not worrying at all.

There are three ovens – a convection, a multi-functional (that has a traditional oven as well as convection, defrost, and more), and a roaster drawer. It’s all easy and GREAT. The only thing to undeniability out is that you can’t put a massive turkey in the oven – To test this we fit a 13lb turkey on a 9×13 roasting pan but we haven’t been worldly-wise to find a larger roasting pan that fits due to the handles that stick out (I’m still on the hunt, btw). So plane though you have 16″ of horizontal width, the handles make them too big. Increasingly on this later, but substantially for us, this is totally fine as we don’t host Thanksgiving and if we overly decide to (with a ton of people to warrant a massive turkey) we’ll likely buy a countertop electric turkey roaster. You can fit everything else:) We love that this has multiple ovens and we use two at a time very commonly (double ovens FTW). It’s just so gorgeous, the top is so easy to wipe and without a day of trying out every single full-length (and plane testing the speed of water boiling) we are so excited that they all work really easily. We bought the contumely knobs separately, FYI. Without doing so much research I’m happy to report that this 48″ induction range is the most trappy on the American market right now and it works wonderfully. I will say that it can use a largest “guide to cooking” rather than just a user’s manual, which is what my next post will hopefully help serve as…

Faber Inca Pro Plus 42 Inch Wide Insert Range Hood

This was a last-minute purchase considering we kinda forgot well-nigh the hood. Induction will do that to you:) Technically you still need one by code, but there are no gas fumes which is nice. I shrivel things a lot (not increasingly on induction – I just historically shrivel things and need to use a hood to stop the fire alarm). This one is good – we opted versus anything splurgy honestly considering you can’t see it and it’s not something we felt was super important to us, therefore a place to save. FYI you can go slightly smaller than your range when it comes to your hood (our range is 48″, the hood is 42″ insert and the build-out of the hood looks the same as the range).

30″ Refrigerator and 24″ Freezer Bluestar Panel-Ready Columns

This is our first foray into the columns versus the fridge on top and freezer on the marrow and we are very happy. Stylistically the side-by-side is simple and pretty, with less lines (almost looks like a piece of furniture). We wanted increasingly topics than we had surpassing considering we, like everyone, leaned into staying home increasingly (even post covid) and we melt every meal with a ton of fresh produce. Both have zaftig topics for our family of four. The fridge has scrutinizingly 17 square feet of capacity, btw if that’s helpful to you.

We talked through it a lot and decided that for us, any worthier of a fridge would midpoint that things just get lost and then mold/go bad unless we are very, very on top of it – which we aren’t. We live very tropical to many grocery stores and really thought well-nigh how often we’d shop (one big shop on Sunday mornings – and a second shop for randoms mid-week). So we don’t need to hoard for two weeks and if we did it would just go bad (because of the size of our family). The natural reaction without covid is to go worthier and hoard more, but I’m telling you that for us we ended up ownership increasingly supplies at once, then it go bad or we couldn’t find it, so we’d buy more, waste what we had and then finger so bad well-nigh it. So the 30″ column is perfect for us. Whereas a larger topics freezer ways you can freezer hoard – and freezer goods obviously have a much longer shelf-life. Our 24″ freezer column has so much topics which is such a good thing (cut to many a night where I make a big soup that no kid in the world would eat and the kids get some sort of yellow strips, pizza, fish sticks). We love a big freezer ????

In the fridge, you can retread the shelves to fit your needs – we made the top one lower to make room for bottles of white wine. We obviously styled it out (you know, the “orange drawer”) trying to show you scale with products in a neat way that gave you a sense of its space. But they are all virtually 8″ deep which allows for one thick layer of produce or dairy – a woodcut of cheese for scale.

The freezer has so much space – we can’t seem to fill it, or maybe we go through it so quickly with our fish stick/carrot stick menu…

I unquestionably wish I had put in a 2-gallon jug of milk so you get a largest sense of scale – it’s a LOT of space.

That semen basket of tomatoes is unquestionably really large:) All in all, we are very happy with them and of course, you know they come panel ready like ours (which squint like cabinets), but moreover BlueStar has over 1000 variegated colors as well as stainless steel. I’m currently inveigling my brother to buy BlueStar and he’s into it. We got these straight from BlueStar in mart for services considering the columns were new to the market, but Build moreover carries a ton of BlueStar appliances that you can check out here. Im truly such a fan now.

Our 24″ Marvel Fridge Drawers

The emergence of the drawer fridges is one that I fully support – gone are the days of the garage fridges. Is this a necessity? Nope. Does it get used all day every day – YES. And “amount of usage” is what I am placing value on these days to help me make decisions. Technically you don’t NEED whimsically anything to live, and there is a level of convenience that for largest or worse we love in this country and this convenience can enhance our day-to-day wits in our home. So we really tried to be as responsible as possible (not perfect, y’all we are not perfect) and gauge how much we will unquestionably USE something surpassing committing to it.

On that note, we use these drawer fridges a lot. These are for drinks, mixers, and kids’ fruit/snacks. We forewent the wine fridge considering they usually don’t get as unprepossessed as we like them (because white wine isn’t supposed to be ice cold, we know, we know but I’d like a word with the wine fridge industry) so we have some white wine in here, too (lying down). But between beer, sparkling waters, and plane some weeknight non-alcoholic “cocktails” these drawers are full.

These are solid additions if you are remodeling and you entertain a lot (or like us, work from home).

Our 15″ Pebble Ice Machine

The VIP of drink appliances IMHO. It’s a very old joke amongst my team (and family) that I love very, very, very unprepossessed water. Another utilization that gets so much use and makes every drink finger increasingly fun. We have this word-for-word model at the mountain house and love it so much, so we repeated it in this kitchen, too.

Our 24″ Integrated Viking Dishwasher

To the left of the sink (a much-heated debate on location), we have our integrated panel-ready dishwasher that cleans like a dream.

As you can see we have a pull-out flatware drawer which we haven’t had surpassing and really love it. They all stack so nicely and neatly (see below). We usually don’t have that much flatware so the left side is for cooking utensils.

As you can see it has a row for wine glasses (which we don’t really use considering I’m the only one that has wine, so just one glass) and but I wanted to show you the function. Without the wine glass leaning you have an spare row for glasses.

All in all, we have ZERO negative things to say well-nigh this dishwasher. We use the “normal wash” every day which does the trick and the kids can hands load and unload. It has a lot of other features, but we usually hand wash our pots and pans so we don’t need it.

Every. Single. One. of these appliances is GREAT and while it’s not like I’ve tested every dishwasher on the market, we are genuinely happy with all of them. The ones that you can see shine (the range) the ones that just need to function do so perfectly for our needs.

A huge thanks to Build with Ferguson for partnering on this kitchen. We have loved working with them over the years and pitched them this partnership specifically with these appliances in mind. We did a trade for PR, photography, and social media services but I’ve washed-up this a long time and know what brands and products I want to put my name behind. These are them. xx

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Kitchen Resources:
Cabinetry: Unique Kitchens & Baths
Countertops: Bedrosians Tile & Stone
White Oak Windows and Doors: Sierra Pacific Windows
Skylights: Velux
Tile: Pratt Larson
Appliances�(sans Fridge and Freezer): Build with Ferguson
Fridge and Freezer: BlueStar
Flooring: Zena Forest Products(Oregon grown and milled)
Lighting, Switches, Outlets, and Sink: Rejuvenation
Wall Color: Sherwin Williams, Extra White
Faucets: deVOL Kitchens
Vintage Island: Aurora Mills
Counter Stools: Fernweh Woodworking
Rug: District Loom
Brass Gallery Rods: Pepe and Carols

*Design by Emily Henderson and ARCIFORM
*Photos by Kaitlin Green

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