Enjoy!! It looks beautiful! Keep us updated....you might be one of the first to review it!!

looks outstanding - very interested to hear how it goes - on a side note love the look of your countertops - care to share what they are?

Thank you. The perimeter counters are blue pearl granite and the island is statuary marble.

Hi Debbi! Any luck cooking yet with your new ovens? :)

Gorgeous! This oven is on my list, so I am looking forward to hear what you think of it.

DH got the electrical hooked up late last night. I did the 100 minute burn off before bed and today I'm doing the 6 hour pre-dry of the oven stone. I have about 20 minutes left. THEN I can use the oven! Hooking up the electrical ended up being a huge pain for DH and he ended up re-doing OUR wiring - that was the easiest way. So we now have a wire from the fuse box to the oven that has 4 wires in it (I know NOTHING about electrical, so this is even lower than layman's terms!) so it matches the one coming from the oven with 4 wires. He had originally installed one with 3 wires in the house. Hope that is helpful to someone. Bluestar was nice when we called them for clarification of their instructions when the house has 3 wires and the stove has 4, but "legally they cannot tell us how to do it" so we were on our own. If we wanted our electrician to call them, they could talk to him. Of course, we don't have an electrician - DH has done everything. Anyway, Dh got it working last night.

I'm having a little trouble with the display today. The display is a touch screen that you use for everything. The 2 knobs in reality don't need to be there. Everything is done through the touchscreen (which is plastic and flexible - I thought it would be glass like an iphone). I set the clock last night. When the oven is off, you see the clock and a star under it. You touch the star to begin everything you do. When you touch the star, it says Good Morning, Welcome, Blustar." Then you press the buttons from there to do whatever you want to do. Today when I pressed the star, it didn't say good morning so I couldn't get into any other screens. I bypassed this by using the knob on the right, which takes me into the bake screen, and then used the screen from there. But when it didn't say good morning, the clock reverted to 1:00 (seems to be the default). Since I'm done with the 6 hour bake of the oven stone, the display is working properly. Not sure what that's about but if it does it again, I'll be calling BS to find out what the problem is.

I'm waiting for the oven to cool from the 500 degree pre-dry of the stone, and I have a big pan of yogurt to cook. We'll see how that works :)

Oh, the fan runs from the moment you touch the star on the front screen, until the oven cools off. It's not obnoxious, but it is a little loud.

If you have any questions, ask away and I'll try to answer them. Hoping to bake bread on the stone this week.

Thanks for the update! Maybe the labor pains will be forgotten once the first delicious meal is on the table. ;) Hope the yogurt turns out well for you. I was wondering about the fan....is it similar to a convection fan sound?

and one more question (for today)....can you talk a little about the oven racks? I was told we could purchase additional easy glide racks. Are they actually easy to glide? TIA!

I love the easy glide racks. But I think they're like $350 each! I've had my range since December and the gliding rack is the one I use. In the wall oven, I washed them all in the dishwasher (per instructions) before hand and left them out of the oven during the 100 minute self-clean. I then put them back in the oven while doing the pre-dry on the stone (pre-dry is 200 degrees for 3 hours; don't open the door and turn up to 300 for one hour; don't open the door and turn up to 400 for one hour; don't open the door and turn up to 500 for one hour. Now you are done and stone is ready to use). Anyway, the pre-dry is basically like baking - not like self-clean and the instructions say you can put the racks back in, so I did. Now the glide rack is difficult to glide. Not sure why or what I've done. DH is busy turning the hall closet into a pantry for me, so I don't want to bother him to look at it yet. In the meantime, I've switched the one out of the range and put it in the wall while because my yogurt pan is sitting on it. They are ball bearing glides and I would love to have them ALL be that way :)

The fan - it is very similar to the convection fan sound in the range, but I think louder. If I read the instructions correctly, this fan is in the front electrical panel, so it's right in the front and at ear level (as opposed to INSIDE the oven and all the way in the back for the convection fan).

The upside to the fan being in the front is your electrical won't be fried. The downside is the noise. I'd rather have the upside.

Debbi,

Have the doors gotten any easier to open and close now that you have done the bake off and used them a few times?

Nope, not yet. I just noticed that we can post videos here. Maybe I'll try one and see if I can show you guys. It will have to wait until the weekend though so DH can video for me.

Debbi,

Getting ready for the double ovens, left the electrical with a big hole so I could put the handy box that comes with it back in the wall. Also here is my range top. Not sure how long its going to be on the ovens, I ordered in January.

Your range top is gorgeous!! Do you have some kind of cart/stand for the ovens while you install?

Tool rental company will have a mini lift for rent. My local company says it's $50 for a week.

TN,

Two questions - the wire running from your house (that's hanging out of the holes right now), is it the 3 wire or 4 wire kind? Also, how close will the ovens be top to bottom? I see that the bottom hole will be under the oven (which is correct), but is the top hole under the top oven? And if so, will it be in the way of the top of the bottom oven? Does that make sense?

I was able to enlarge your pictures on my computer (usually I see these threads on my phone). I love your cabinets and the range top looks so awesome! I'd love a further away shot to see the wall oven cabinet too.

Debbi,

Attached are the pictures you were wanting, the wiring is 4 wire and I ran it new from a breaker panel. The double ovens will mount one on top of the other with a double oven mounting plate supplied by bluestar. Still a work in progress but I will post pictures once I get the ovens in.

I LOVE IT! That is so pretty. That's going to look amazing when it's all done. Really love the cabinets. You ordered your ovens only 3 months after I did, and now that they're finally shipping, I wouldn't think you would be too far behind me. Can't wait to see them!

The display problem I spoke of above still happens. About every other time I touch the star, the display resets. Once it even went back the the red screen, which is the first time calibration screen. I've called BS. They had me send a video, and then said they are "working with [my appliance store] to get them back out to my house to make some minor adjustments to the touch screen." I'll keep you posted. My appliance store is over an hour away, so hope this works out alright!

Debbi, I know this is a little off topic, but what are those gorgeous countertops in your picture? Calcutta marble and ???

Thank you Golf! The island is statuary marble and the perimeter is blue pearl granite.

Debbi,

I thought I would post these pictures because we have been sharing our Bluestar electric wall oven thoughts. Both got installed today, they went in with alot of work from myself and two big guys they definitely are heavy as you posted. No issue with the display at the moment so hopefully that was an early item. I do have a noisy convection fan on the lower oven but I will contact bluestar about a replacement because it looks out of balance. The units are well built and I even opened the top access plate as well as the bottom hinge plate and things seem to be very accessible from a repair standpoint for the electronics. The one advice I would give potential owners is to take the bluestar cutout recommendations and add a 1/16th to horizontal width and vertical width. Mine was exactly as they recommended and it was tight, it fit but it took some struggle to get it in.

Omgosh Stang! They look awesome! I'm so glad you updated. They are truly heavy for sure! My convection fan seems fine. The fan that goes constantly for the electronics bothers me sometimes but it's aright. I do usually leave the doors open to get the oven to cool to 200 faster so that electronics fan will shut off. I thought he French doors were really hard to open until I tried them on some commercial ovens at a restaurant supply store and found those to be the same.

Your kitchen is beautiful! I really love everything I see. Congratulations on being finally finished!

Oh, even though the manual says you can wash the racks in the dishwasher, do NOT wash the ball-bearing racks in there. It will cause them not to glide. Learned from experience. They sent me a new one. I didn't have the heart to tell them that I washed the one from my range with it :(

Question for tnstangman. I see that your oven stack is against a doorway. Are you having any trouble opening the doors on the top oven? My double ovens are against an open doorway, too. I'm going to have to replace them in the not too distant future. I'm wondering about the French doors being able to fully open.

HomeChef,

Not at all. The main reason I picked the french doors was because of the door opening and the pantry cabinet that you backup to when unloading the ovens. The french doors swing into the opening and clears everything, it also allows you to stand in front of the oven with full access.

Thanks.

How are you both liking your Bluestar wall ovens now after a few years ? I am really thinking of buying for my kitchen reno, with matching 36" range top. How is that electronic panel fan still annoying , not always saying hello. What about the french doors to open? baking are you happy with how it cooks food ? Appreciate your time.

Marie thank you so much !! Question my set up is just like yours !! How much room did you leave between the left wall and your wall oven ? They say to give 6" which is a lot, I guess for swing doors as my current oven there is just a few inches. Can you open oven with one hand ? Sound might bother me, but they all seem to have something when doing wall oven research ! Overwhelming !!! Miele also has the fan thing I heard someone say. The fan is the one behind electronic panel or the oven fan ? I think I am going with the same 6 range top burner also. How do you like that ? Thanks so much !!!!!!!

beautiful kitchen

Thank you so much beautiful kitchen ! Layout is so similar to mine its funny. Appreciate you input. I just saw the speed oven yesterday wasn't sure about it, has some cool things. Glad your happy with it, heard the MV part can break ? Yo can bake cookies, chicken in it ?

Ooops MW microwave, sorry typo. Oh that interesting good to know. I saw the big 48' Miele that had one in it then was talking to the salemen about it and their standard oven series. I didn't know if it would preform as good as a regular oven ? I am deciding on Bluestar double wall oven, but Mielie is also an option maybe do the island idea like you have. Bet that was a fun project we are gutting ours as well ! Especially sink its gotta go, LOL

So you say the Miele cooks better then the BlueStar ? For baking cookies, roasts ???

Oh thank you for the sink tip ! Did you get an apron front ? And thanks for info really appreciate your honest feedback. Your Miele has not given you any trouble breaking down, microwave works well

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Oh WOW ! Cool faucet Waterstone ? Great kitchen and your view looks out like in the country setting. Thanks for info very useful. I just saw info when googling about them after the showroom visit. However I have come to the conclusion that every single appliance has negative and positives, on reviews and you have to choose what you like style wise and function for you. Some defiantly have more then others !! Chatting with people that actually own then is so great like the Bluestar gas range top. You have really helped. Here is my kitchen similar :)

Lisaandmarcel,

When my mother passed last year, I got the Hamilton Beach mixer. I see you have two of them. I not only have the large and small bowls, I have the juicer attachment made from the same material, too. They all still work. I could make cookies with them today. Yours caught my eye in your picture.

Mine our Sunbeam, cool they are workhorses.