here's one similar to mine. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=vintage+green+range+gas&hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1C1TSNH_enUS437US437&biw=1024&bih=475&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=uuPAsb8Sn01bDM:&imgrefurl=http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/old-stoves-price-guide/antique-stoves-price-guide-26.html&docid=XT2I9Ts9hXlqjM&imgurl=http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/ebay/images/2010/230564477102.jpg&w=400&h=300&ei=qWgwT7LMJMbr0gHfx6T9Bg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=613&vpy=101&dur=62&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=109&ty=132&sig=112197913857999394693&page=12&tbnh=139&tbnw=196&start=169&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:169 hmm, this link seems very long!

Love mine. Love. It. To. Death. I've posted copious and tediously on the topic in the past, so you'd do best to run a search for my user name + O'Keefe & Merritt + Gardenweb. A few quick tidbits: You've got a slightly newer model from the late 1950's. This means it's all run off pilot lights, so no worries about having to light the oven manually. Those pilots do mean a steady source of very low-level heat. I used to live in SF, had a similar Wedgewood, and we never minded it since the kitchen had no heater per se. Your preference may vary. Your model also has the white porcelain tops under the burner grates, which I think is probably slightly easier to maintain than mine -- mine has chrome tops, which is fancier but also much easier to scratch over time. We throw the grates into the dishwasher. Does yours have a double oven, or a Grillevator on the left side? From the knob configuration, probably the Grillevator? We adore our Grillevator, but that's because we're in Maine, so it allows us to bbq when there are 5 feet of snow outside. Your desires may vary. It's also surprisingly un-difficult to locate the parts and have a gas professional switch out the Grillevator for a second oven, should your wife prefer to have 2 ovens for family baking. We had our Robertshaw oven thermostat re-built and it works great, no temperature fluctuations. There's an outfit in Los Angeles that will recalibrate yours, or sell you a replacement. There's also a great guy over in Berkeley who rehabs these stoves on a regular basis, and he'd be a wonderful resource for parts, rechroming, etc, should you need anything restored or replaced. I'd recommend getting it thoroughly cleaned and lubricated before using -- or leaning to take it apart and clean it yourself. Goole the 'Old Appliance Club' online, they sell a number of manuals that walk you through this. The wonderful thing about these stoves: anything that can break can be repaired or replaced. I mean anything. I just spent a few days cleaning and disassembling my clock/timer, and we now have that cheerful buzzer back. Yay! The gas burners are calibrated at 12btu which we find hot enough for almost every purpose. You can adjust the flame for your cooking preference down inside the hood behind the knob panel. The OKM burners have a wonderful low simmer setting, something I hear modern gas stoves often fail to do. Ask away with any questions. I've been using ours with gusto for 5 years now, and can perhaps help. GW member Bayareafrancy has an OKM like yours, and there are a number of Chambers users here as well. Enjoy! Here is a link that might be useful: Reliance Appliance in Berkeley

I really don't know if those wall-mounted fridges work at all, but the other things someone may want to use. Not sure if the DW could be reconditioned. Maybe the wall oven could be used as is. The only thing with old fridges is hazardous chemicals. My oldest niece and her DH had a sulfur dioxide leak from an old fridge in their basement after he was cleaning the coils and hit them, and they had the hazmat crew out to the house and evacuate for the weekend. The basement carpet had to be ripped up and thrown out, which they were planning to do anyways.

I'm a former antique gas stove owner. We inherited a 1930s Magic Chef when we bought our house in 2007. When we started our current kitchen renovation in December 2013, I sold it to a very grateful old-stove enthusiast from Michigan who drove down in ONE DAY from the Upper Peninsula to NYC. My experience: the prior owners of our house, the purchasers of the stove, bought a fixer-upper stove. They corresponded with one of the old stove places online and did some rudimentary repairs themselves, but there were things that needed a real restorer: the insulation at the back was nonexistent and the temperature regulators for both ovens were broken. I tried the restoration places, and the two that seemed capable of handling the work were on opposite coasts, California and Maine. We got tentative quotes of $5-6K for restoration, PLUS the cost of shipping a 600-pound stove...it was going to be prohibitive, and pretty much the cost of a fancy new range. Cooking on the old gal: mixed bag. Fine for heating soup, boiling pasta or doing a frozen pizza, but the flame on the burners could not be adjusted as finely as those on a modern range. It was more like having a choice of low, medium or kind of high. High-temperature cooking, like wok or searing, was not an option. My baking experience was warped by the fact that the temperature gauges were broken on my ovens. One held at about 450, whatever the setting was; the other was more consistent but became unusable when there was a crack in the gas line feeding it. On thing that really annoyed me about the range was the burner setup. I had six burners but they were in a 30" space, so big pots and pans didn't work, and it was a constant geometry game to get the pan handles where they weren't interfering with each other. I had a bank of stoves on the right which limited the size of pans that could be used on the rightmost burners. Cleaning: the burners had more exposed cast-iron than most, so spillovers were messy. But it wasn't much more of a problem to clean than any range. Overall, it was a beautiful piece but not so good to cook on. I'm a cook and needed more burner space, burner power and more reliable oven temps than that range could provide. I was happy to sell it to someone who was going to appreciate it and whose style of cooking was better suited. I linked a pic of the model I owned. Here is a link that might be useful: