So yesterday I spilled the beans on our appliances. We’re going with JENN-AIR.

Here’s the thing- when you have an IKEA kitchen, you can’t go cookie cutter or the whole thing falls flat. You have to put your own spin on things whether you splurge on countertops, lighting, or appliances. There has to be something that doesn’t turn your kitchen into the IKEA showroom. Take our real estate agent for example. Fantastic taste! She has a gorgeous IKEA kitchen with beautiful marble countertops and a chunky wood antique buffet as her kitchen peninsula. Nothing cookie cutter about it.

So for our splurge, we’re going with upgraded appliances. We’ve shopped around to several local appliance stores and some big chain stores. The best advice we got came from a gentleman at Baron’s Major Brands Appliances in (tax-free!) Salem, New Hampshire. (Thanks Aunt Sue for the tip about Baron’s!)

We all know you have your everyman brands like GE, Whirlpool, Kenmore, and Frigidaire. Then there’s an upgrade with Bosch and Jenn-Air. And then there’s your why-bother-unless-you-have-loads-of-dough brands like Wolf and Viking. Anyways- the advice we got from our Baron’s guy was that all those everyman brands have piece-of-$h!t dishwashers. Yup, plain and simple. You want a dishwasher that will last, that will be quiet, that won’t leave water spots or stuck on food on your dishes, you have to upgrade to the Bosch and Jenn-Air dishwashers of the world.

And the more reviews we read, the more we believe him. Plus, the Jenn-Air fridge and stove were sexy as hell. Yeah, I said it. Sexy! Tell me they’re not…

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