It looks great!
Sorry, I have a gas stove, so no help.
Sorry, I have a gas stove, so no help.
Yeah, I've already cheated and used water to get some of it off the top. A lot of elbow grease!! Grrr.I have a stove like yours. They are a pain to clean. I let mine cool then use a single edge razor and windex to clean the over spills then use a ceramic stove cleaner with alot of elbow grease after.
Thanks, couldn't have done it without my brother in laws hard work! I've heard gas stoves are better anyway, at least that's what I've been told.It looks great!
Sorry, I have a gas stove, so no help.
Lol! Those are moose on the electrical covers!!! I have a clock that matches them too. Thanks for the tip on the convection oven cookbook. Never even thought of it. Boy the cat's can't get away with anything with the stove top! Lol.
Kathy, it's lovely. I love everything. Where did you find your electrical covers? I believe I see cats on them!
Love your countertops. And look at all that space by the sink.....I could knead yeast dough there and roll out cookies to my heart's content! Nice.
As for the stove, yeah, mine is like that. I never realized just how often the cats surfed the kitchen counters til we got that stove and I saw all the paw prints. My stove top is a mess and I don't know how to get the stuff off completely. I've tried everything and nothing works to get it completely clean. Especially sugar, from doing applesauce....what a bugger that is to get off the stove. I believe you said it's also convection. Find a convection cookbook and read up on convection; you'll be glad you did. It's worth it. I use it all the time. (My old microwave was also convection and it came with a really nice Sharp microwave/convection cookbook. I use a lot of the recipes in that, but I kept working with it, too, and I'm glad I have it. Food gets done a lot quicker with convection than regular baking and roasting.)
I have found, too, that the icemaker/water on the fridge likes to leave a mess, if you're not careful. I'm constantly cleaning that off and wiping it down.
I like how you keep your spices on the side of the fridge. Neat idea! They're right within reach.
I like it. It all came together beautifully. Great job! I can't wait to see your backsplash....I've started looking for backsplash, but haven't found anything that reached out and smacked me yet.
Thanks Kim, I'll check it out.
Get some of the polish/wax to put on it. Make a habit of putting it on at least once a month. It will make clean up easier. When I do have a mess to clean up I spray my bleach cleaner on it and let it sit for a little while. I than use my straight razor I bought just for the stove on it. It comes right up. I really think the polish makes a difference.
Kim
We did a stripe of the patterned in the middle and use neutral color for the rest of it. That way it's not too busy.
I'm really looking forward to some backsplash pictures, too, Kathy.
We were at Lowes yesterday and I was looking. We saw a brownish glass pattern that we both liked, but I'm afraid that, with my countertops, that partocular backsplash would look way too busy. We're going up to Susquehanna Granite (where we got our countertops) next Saturday morning, to see what they have.
But I'm not worried. I have that lovely Light Sage paint on the kitchen walls, so if I can't find a backsplash that trips my trigger, it's OK. I will find something sometime. And I can wait.