Momto2boys, maybe it's been addressed, but if seeing the apex of the clipped gable rising above the roofline is what's bothering you, raise the grade in the area where it does that as one approaches the house. This will alter the angle of your sight line and drop the apex below the roof line. All you need is inches, so it could be done extremely subtlely, or you could conceivably even create a graceful separation between front garden and street by creating a path approaching between two gentle berms, and raised a little itself as it courses through. Another outside option, one that can fix far larger problems than this, is to strategically place a beautiful tree or trees. There are few front yards so lovely, and very few houses so beautiful, that they wouldn't benefit from this. Perspective can be your friend, helpful in a whole bunch of ways. :)

We have the Kithenaid Superba 30" double convection oven KEHC309JSS, with the convection microwave top. Bottom oven is convection also. Never used the self cleaning feature yet, so far just a soapy sponge. The oven cavity is very spacious and useful. The temp probe works great, oven has nice looks. But the 3 racks are way to flimsy for the width of this oven, and sag alot, so sliding a water pan or a pumpkin pie in is mighty tricky,(I definately need to find heavier racks, like what is found on your better ovens) and this oven wasn't cheap, thinking it was $3800. I think they need to hire engineers who actually bake pastry and broil thick steaks. We have had repair on the microware door hinges twice. The elements in the lower oven sagged 3 inches since there was a missing support bracket, so the guy comes out with the bracket, finally, but a regular screw, not stainless, so I gave him one to put in instead, had to drill a hole through the cavity, it was scarey, the first guy that came out wouldn't do it. Caution: do not turn your back on those guys, most are way undertrained, maybe break something and not tell you, or damage your cabinets, or not hook something back up. Schedule repair when your kids kids are gone, so you can keep a close eye on the the techs. The whole keypad control was replaced once too because the display partially failed. It has an adjustment that you can set to compenstate for temperature variance, but it doesn't make any difference when set, the oven still under cooks. When preheating, the oven temp will beep when it reaches temp, but that will be 100 degress or more off from what it suppose to be. The display will say its up to temp, but it won't be, and if you use a quality oven thermometer to compare, and its obvious if your a pie baker because they won't be cooked!! The other stupid thing is that when broiling at 500 degrees, it will beep in about 10 minutes and say 500, but the true temp is only 350! And then it starts cycling the broil element off, when its still only at 325, so preheat will take 30 minutes, and then it only get to 425-435, despite that the inaccurate display says 500. This problem occured/s with both control units, obviously a design flaw. Baking mode also indicates preheat is done but true reading indicates othewise. Maybe now that its out of warranty they will actually find the problem(hahah, sad but true). Ultimately is Quality Control /Assurance who should check all parts and test to see if the oven meets engineering specs, and report things like the temperature control problems. So far I can say, customer support, isn't up to par, and will always deny deny deny, "No one has reported that before" attitude, but maybe they are afraid they will get fired, most people don't have whistle blower guts. Kitchenaid shoud be sued for their sheer stupidity, just think, they could hire better engineers and QC/QA people for all the money they waste sending out repair techs during the warranty period. Of course what do you expect when none of this stuff is made where they speak english anymore. Maybe QA should learn "No lo trabaja".

Have you ever used an old timey range with lots of small compartments? Or even a fairly big oven and a warming drawer? Once you get past the question of are the ovens big enough, which you can determine in a showroom, or just with dimensions and a measuring tape if you have to, the question is whether you'll like using a range that much. One or the other of the ovens is going to be *very* low, unless you're talking about a 48" (or larger) range, or a French range. Generally, with a 30" range, the smaller compartment is on top. I can think of various reasons why that makes more sense on the design side, but if you're using the bigger oven more and it's lower, that's a lot of bending, even with glide out racks. Ideal is all ovens at waist level. I grew up with two waist level ovens of different design and purpose, one on either side of the kitchen. I wish I could have copied that. :) Double ovens can be mounted low, middle or high. If they're low, you basically have one at a good height, and one at the same height as if it were in a range. At medium, one is too high and one is too low, but you get a drawer underneath for potholders or pans, and storage above. Mounted high, you don't get much useful storage above (i.e., need a ladder if there is any), and you're putting pans in and out at shoulder/head level. I've seen a lot of European kitchens where they mount small ovens at head level on purpose (i.e., not forced by limited space or anything). That makes looking in convenient, but puts limits on who can use your kitchen at all (i.e., no one short), and there are some dangers associated with opening and tending ovens at head height. If there's a drop down door, it must be shallow enough to let you get in, and most ovens nowadays have doors that cover the whole oven area, rather than just the cavity, making head height a no-go. Even at under shoulder height, it can be an issue. Given that few of us can make Ideal work, that leaves what's possible. Figure out whether you want to stand in front of ovens to use your cooktop, vs. where you'd put wall ovens and how high. Once you get past the strictly positioning issues, a lot of the rest should come clear for you.

I'm sorry this is happening to you. This happened to me a couple years ago. So I recommend you do the following: Tell the contractor (whoever hired the tile people) to stop work and schedule sit-down meeting. Make the meeting be something like Friday so that you have some time to prepare. Do this communication by email. (Do every single syllable of communication by email from now on. Nothing verbal. If any verbal words are exchanged, confirm them by a follow-up email confirming your understanding of what at was said/planned/promised/agreed, and ask for confirmation in the email.) Get ready for your meeting: Document your understanding of everything that was done wrong. Put all the blue tape all over in the bathroom. You can download an online version of the TCNA handbook here: https://www.tcnatile.com/products-and-services/publications/218-english-publications/188-handbook.html It's a manual of industry standards for tile. It's less than $40. It also includes information about waterproofing. It's long, but you don't have to read the whole thing. Read the introduction (about 50 pages) and the stand-alone shower sections. You can skip all the other parts such as swimming pools, etc. Read about waterproofing and tiling on this forum and on the John Bridge forum. You need support for the meeting. Ask someone (a spouse, adult child, friend, neighbor) to attend the meeting with you as your support person and as a note-taker. Create your list of questions/concerns. Make them open ended and a bit broad, such as "How did you waterproof my shower?" "Do you have your TCNA manual with you; can you show me in there what method you used?" (probably he doesn't know what this is) "Why does the tile look so messy?" "What is your plan to fix all the problems?" Let the contractor talk and make sure your note-taker writes everything down. Don't interrupt of start arguing with the contractor. Always stay business like and calm. If the contractor gets upset that's his problem. Have the meeting. If they don't show up, send an email inquiring why. Go through your whole list of questions/concerns. If the contractor gets off track, always come back to the important question: "What is your plan to fix all the problems?" If the contractor gets upset, says things like "You're too picky", "We've never had a complaint before", or "You're too hard to please" ask them to stay on track regarding the sub-par work. If the contractor yells at you, stands up or starts pacing around (happened to me), ask them to stop yelling at you in your home and tell them to take a minute and let you know when they are ready to proceed calmly. If, through your research and the contractor's answers, you are reasonably convinced that the waterproofing was done wrong, and/or the tile mess can't be fixed without compromising the waterproofing, ask the contractor to re-demo and start all over with a new, qualified, certified and experienced tile professional in charge. Your contractor doesn't change; you don't pay more; this is on the contractor's dime. If they say anything about you paying more, or making a payment now, say that you don't feel that that is reasonable given the problems so far, but that you look forward to the new, competent crew, and if the work is truly professional you don't foresee any reason why full payment would not be reasonable at the end of the project. They will either agree to redo it or not; or they might want more time to think about their plan over the weekend, etc, etc. You might not get a definitive yes or no during the meeting. In our meeting (which was on a Friday), the contractor went off the rails several times saying we should hire someone else to re-do the shower and they would just finish the rest of the bathroom; that they didn't want to touch the shower anymore. DH kept bringing them back to "We hired you to complete the whole project and we trust that you will be able to figure out a plan to fix the waterproofing; so what do you think you will do?"...stuff like that happened 4 or 5 times. At the end of the meeting the only agreement was that they were going to work on their plan over the weekend and would contact us on Monday. After the meeting we confirmed this understanding by email. After the meeting, send an email with a general summary of the meeting, based on the notes, and re-cap any agreements, quitting, or what you perceive as the result of the meeting. Keep all your language business-like and clear. They might have agreed to re-do with a new, competent crew. Great! In your email, express how please you are at their business like approach to these waterproofing and tile problems. Say something like "We look forward to seeing you and the new tile crew on Monday for the re-demoing and starting fresh on the project. Have a nice weekend." They might flat our refuse and get mad at you (refer to the yelling comments above). If they flat out refuse, say "Oh my; so you are quitting the project?" After the meeting, confirm this by email. They might have huffed off, in which case you also confirm that my email. Something like "We were disappointed that you left our meeting this morning without letting us know what the plan is to fix all the waterproofing and tile problems on our bathroom project. After you have some time to thing about the project, please let us know how you plan to proceed. If this means you are quitting the project, please let us know right away so that we can start the process of hiring a new contractor. Hope to hear form you on Monday..." After the meeting, whatever the conclusion was, post the contractors answers here and/or on John Bridge where I hope you will get continued support from the pros on the forums. In our case, the contractor wanted to think over the weekend and then they quit by email on Monday. We had to start over. Months later they later sued us saying that we fired them illegally. We had no choice but to respond. It went to District Court where we were awarded ALL our money back plus extra for materials that they ruined. Why did the judge award to us? Because ALL communication with the contractor was done by email, and the judge could clearly see that they quit; she threw out their suit and award us everything that we put in our counter suit. Another huge reason is because our new tile pro, who is an experienced, over-qualified, certified pro, testified as an expert witness about all the things done wrong by the quit-GC. And don't be scared - we did all the legal stuff ourselves. It's not as hard as everyone thinks. Again, I'm really sorry this is happening to you. We also live in a Wild Wild West area (North of Houston) and the township doesn't care what anyone does in their house. You could string extension cords all over the house for every single thing, put an outhouse inside your bathroom, install a firepole in place of your staircase, and no one would care til you sell the house and finally an inspector comes inside.