Electricians at work today. I should have all the wiring, some temporary outlets, and the overhead lights by the end of the day. Apparently they like to do the final outlets at the end of the project, so they don’t get messed up by the backsplash work.
My soon to be demolished 1984 oven is a big regular oven on top and a smaller broiler on the bottom. You can’t use both at the same time. If you set a specific temperature it’s the top if you turn the temperature dial all the way to end it’s on the “Broil” setting and the bottom one activates.
The new kitchen will have a range with one oven that has multiple settings like Bake, Broil and Air Fry.
Everyone is different. We use the small oven 90% of the time. But we eat mostly casseroles/lasagna type stuff. Small oven is fine for meatloaf or a roast. We very rarely cook a big bird.
I would think that the smaller oven is more effiecient.
Probably. But it’s less efficient that putting both the roast and the vegetable in the same large oven, which I often do. (mostly for winter squashes or yams.)
I basically never cook a casserole. My husband and daughter don’t like cheese, which cuts down on the viable casseroles, and I’ve never been a huge fan. I guess I could do a small roast, like a little chicken or a rack of lamb, in a small oven. It would make dealing with the turkey and the goose (Thanksgiving and New Years) a lot harder, though.
Also, if I routinely used both ovens, I couldn’t use the lower one for storage. Since I only use the lower one about twice a year, it’s a perfectly good place to store all the large flat cook sheets, broiler, etc.
Anyway, I’m obviously in the minority, as I assume the manufacturers make what sells. I’m just curious about oven cooking habits, because I basically never think “I wish the oven were smaller”.
You have another issue to deal with 
Duel?
Made by Hamilton, I presume?
Good catch, and follow up.
Electrical work proceeding smoothly. I should have undercabinet lights by the end of the day, and the boxes for the new outlets. But only two working outlets until they return.
Annoyingly, the dining room is on the same circuit as whatever they turned off to work on the kitchen, so the microwave and toaster oven couldn’t be used at lunch time, and we had to move the electric kettle to another room for my husband to make tea. But they promise all that will be on again before they leave.
We had one bobble – There’s no way to put a hardwired switch in one of the two places I wanted the undercabinet light switches. But they agreed to hardwire one of them, and use a wireless thing for the other. When its battery dies the hardwired switch will still work, and if I remember that the other one has a battery to be changed, it is supposed to be easy to put in a new watch battery. the other option was to put the switch above an outlet (rather than to the side) or put it under the measuring cups that hang down behind the cabinet.
My tile is in the house. 
The glass tile for the kitchen is very thin! I need to play with it over the weekend to decide what orientation to use.
The straight lines can go up-down or flat. (And two other angles.)
Love the look
Is that tile for the counter top, or the back splash? I thought you already had tile for the backsplash. And are you going to install it or have a contractor do it.
It’s for the backsplash.
I had tile. But it was muddy pink squares, and it made it really hard to get electrical work done. So the tile was removed last week, the walls opened up Wednesday, and the electrical work done yesterday. Today the carpenter is putting in insulation (we had none) and new wall board. Monday the tile guy is scheduled to come to install the tile, and he’s supposed to grout it on Tuesday.
All I know is that you’re supposed to use un-sanded grout for glass tiles.
I hope the tile guy knows what he’s doing.
I’m also surprised that they replaced the cement board with a plastic foam board. It’s more waterproof, but i wonder about the safety next to the stove. Small kitchen fires are a thing. If oil ignites in a frying pan, will the wall melt and release toxic fumes?
Oh, wow! So many things to obsess about…I’m so glad we’re not doing any remodelling any time soon.
The same tile guy did a really good job on my bathroom remodel a few years ago. I trust him to know how to do glass tiles.
Lighting (chandelier for over the island, plus new recessed ceiling lighting and under cabinet lights) and new window are in and installed! The dishwasher, microwave, stove, and fridge are back in place and mostly hooked up (except for the dishwasher - the plumbing won’t be reconnected until the sink and countertop are installed). The electrician is going to come back today to finish installing new switches and outlets, as well as a new doorbell. The countertop should arrive this week, and once that’s in, they can do the tile and finish up! They ended up running the water line for the fridge through the floor down to the main water connection in the basement rather than drilling through multiple cabinets. I was out of town this week, and while I was gone, they also installed the crown molding (and a spacer for one of the wall cabinets, so the edge of the door didn’t rub the cabinet next to it when opened). Plus all the cabinet hardware.
The new shelf brackets are SO much more secure than the ones in the old cabinets. The best moment we had with the old cabinets was when a decrepit plastic shelf bracket gave way during dinner prep, sending a shelf full of glassware crashing down onto Tom_Scud. It’s amazing he didn’t need stitches.
But I am still most excited about the tile! I can’t wait! And I guess the last thing will actually be touching up the stain on the wood trim?
That is a slam dunk!
Impressed with how quickly it all went. Well done! I was equally amazed when my daughter also in Chicago needed her newly rented studio painted cleaned and bathroom fixtures updated from like 1940’s era. I thought it’d be a long drawn process with hassles and delays. Nope, within two weeks of moving in the maintenance guys swooped in and commenced to getting it done right away. Same with a BIL in the burbs, new wood floors. bathroom fixtures, refinishing kitchen cabinets. They had nothing but praise for the work ethic of the trades people.
Now friends in S Florida cannot find decent workmen available to complete a project started long ago. 
Chicago is the City That Works, dammit! I had good recommendations for tradespeople from my friend who is the real estate agent who handled our house transaction, plus we had hired the contractor for several smaller jobs either here, or at our old condo. We always get multiple bids for larger jobs, and he’s always the best and cheapest. Plus he is low drama and always shows up and does what he says he is going to do, which I seriously think is half the battle. I’m glad to share his contact info if you are local. The cabinet vendor was pure luck; I decided we needed to educate ourselves about cabinets because we didn’t know anything, so I just picked a cabinet shop at semi-random via Yelp that was well-reviewed and nearby. The quote for the cabinets ended up being about the same price as IKEA, except we liked the design options better and the lead time was about a week and a half instead of the 7 - 9 weeks that it would have been to go with IKEA cabinets and Semihandmade fronts. (He also gave us a quote for the remodeling, and I am sure he would have done an awesome job, but the quote was nearly double the one that we went with.)
The lighting, cabinet hardware, etc. were the easy part…I just ordered contact paper to line the cabinets, and I think that took me longer to figure out!