When we bought our house 5 years ago the kitchen was trashed, the previous owners (before the house was repossessed from them) had let their dogs eat the doors and shelves, and removed the boiler without turning the water off, so it needed to be gutted and a new one done from scratch, plaster, flooring, units, elecy and decoration. (Probably why no-one had bought it before us and why we got such a good deal)
So, I made a list of everything I wanted, then we designed it and had it delivered a week after we moved in, fitted it ourselves, did the tiling (floor and half way up the walls), moved the plumbing, rewired and replastered, and now it looks great!
The center piece of the kitchen is a 110cm wide dual fuel range style cooker, stainless steel (a pig to keep clean and smear free), double electric oven (one fan assisted) / grills and 6 gas hobs, one of which is a double ring and has a wok holder to fit above it if you want to use a wok). Also got a matching hood and splashback, looks good and does a good job of extracting the fumes and lighting it up!
Have to say its fabulous! I love cooking, and having the range has made it much easier to cook as I want, plenty of hob space, lots of room in the oven, I really wouldnt be without it!
Ours is an ELBA branded one, havent had any problems at all with it, except that the marking on the front is now wearing off (which shows which hob is which), and the paint is coming off one or two of the hob rings, but cooks great and still looks good!
Make sure whatever you get is easy to strip down for cleaning, ours is and makes life much easier, especially when you spill something on it!
Only feature I'd like which I dont have is a clock that you could set for it to come on at a specific time, it does have a timer, but its only a countdown one, but other than that its fairly basic and brilliant to use!
Sorry to have gone on, but I love my cooker!
