Oh The Drama Of The Skunk Stove

Remember my beautiful stove?

Oh, stove.  We could've had such a good life... 

Here's the deal.

The King went crazy and ON HIS OWN selected and purchased a commercial stove for our home.

Yeah, yeah.  It was sweet.

The King let the cabinet maker know that it was a 36" stove.  He let the plumber know what size gas pipe thing was required.  

He said everything else was standard.

He was wrong.

After the cabinets were under construction, a teensy little discovery was made.

THE STOVE WAS A FOOT DEEPER THAN STANDARD.

THE STOVE WAS A FOOT DEEPER THAN THE CABINETS.

Some magic formula that calculates the size of a kitchen walkway and island compared to its location relative to Mars and the size of your stove determined that my island would be 36 inches narrower than I'd planned.

Not to mention the fact that THE STOVE WAS A FOOT DEEPER THAN THE CABINETS.

Can you even imagine how many times I would hit my hip on her corner?

(Have I ever told you how easily I bruise?)

So.  

The beautiful stove still sits in her lovely shrink wrapping on top of the skunk.

If I'd known that she was super deep before cabinet construction, we could have planned around the measurements.

And yes.  I acknowledge that I could have measured it myself. 

But that would not be fun.  Let's go back to blaming The King.

Have I told you that I've never had an island?  

I've always wanted an island.  

I've wanted to bake cookies while the laughing children sit and do their homework and we talk about our day and about how happy we are to have cookies and milk and how excited we are for daddy to come home from work and then he'll walk in to the clean & good smelling house and kiss the kids and kiss me and thank me for baking cookies, and...

The super deep skunk stove was going to take that dream from me.

So now I've got a 30" normal stove.

Nothing fancy.  No red knobs.  Just standard.

But she & I will SO be baking lots of cookies.

Comments

[Dee from Tennessee]

I would miss those red knobs. Yes I would.

[rrmama]

Sorry to hear about the stove! It's the King's fault!!! Love the picture of La P. I was just thinkg about y'all the other day and wondering.

[kat]

Well, that's just junk! Welcome back to the norm!

[Happy Geek]

So, the question remains what happens to the skunk-stove now? And yes, it will be forever called that in my mind.

[kris]

well, you can live without that stove, but let me tell you from a new island lover... you cannot live without your island! Enjoy!

[Michele]

I love the baking cookies, laughing children, smiling while doing homework, kissing husband dream....dream on....enjoy the island and the cookies!

[Dana Jones]

buy a can of red spray paint and paint your knobs on your standard stove.

And think of all the great dishes you won't burn because your standard stove won't get so stinking hot as a commercial one. I think they are over-rated for home use. Un less you are a chef. Few of us are.

[stove pipe]

Great post. I will have to bookmark your site for later reading.