Please tell me about your kitchen appliances ...

I've been in the market for a new oven and found this one at Top's. Love the French doors on the top. You pull on one and the other opens simultaneously. It's a good idea because it leaves the front of the oven free, you don't have to reach around from the side as you may have to if the door swung down.



Top's carries all the brands you've mentioned.

What is your budget?

We saw a $10,000 Viking stove. That is our whole budget for a gas cooktop, range hood, double ovens (one convection) microwave drawer and dishwasher! And if we could stay under 8K, even better!

Good point.

Bosch

If you want a really nice luxurious look, and have good high btu burners, and good build design.
Not much will match the burner btu and burner spread of a Thermidor or Viking, but there are great higher end big name branded items. Pretty much any natural gas oven or anything natural gas can be changed to Propane. The igniters are usually designed for both, really just changing the regulators and intake line.
So your fuel should not be a problem, just the added expense of needing new parts added to it, or many times you can get the units already with the Propane components.

I would look at Kenmore Elite, GE Profile and even Whirlpool. Each makes some great looking units, and they do their job. I think their pricing is good for the quality level. On the Dishwasher, no mater what color the front panel, I would recommend a stainless steel inner tub.
Any particular features that you want? Things to avoid?
Pretty much internally they are the same from one to the other. The differences in most appliances is solely electronics and appearance and 'added features'.

(Except for the Korean, European and New Zealand (F/P) brands, which while nice and functionally superior I'm not sure the higher price is really worth it)

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That's awesome, like commercial oven doors, I haven't seen that domestically except for people with Vulcan ovens, which are really uncommon in homes.

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We're pretty sure we want a gas cooktop

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It's time to replace my aging electric cooktop and I've looked at gas but I'm becoming more and more intrigued with induction cooktops. Anyone have any first-hand experience with them?

I plan on an induction cooktop in our new construction. I played around with the Wolf brand at their showroom in Houston and really liked the responsiveness and ease of cleaning. Induction also is much more efficient and will heat up your kitchen less than gas and requires less ventilation.

I will put in a gas line just incase I find I don't like it (unlikely) or for resale.

Can't reply to individual posts at this moment, but thanks for all of the input so far! Much to think about, will be back to discuss later.

Oh, and induction cooktops? Crap, I'm finally able to have gas and now find out there is something better? Maybe I don't want to know.