DIFFICULTY = 8
TIME CONSUMPTION = 10
LESSON IN PATIENCE = 9
COST = 7
It was our first major house challenge and many moons later - it is still not finished. I will do a post of our pre-reno kitch some other day. Today we talk about my hood. No, not the metro-Atlanta area and all it's urban glory. Shoutout A-Town! I wanna talk about the Arietta 30in Venito Chimney Pyramid Ventilation Hood from Home Depot.
I have been drooling over this baby since day 1. Note: we started the kitchen reno the week we bought the house - almost two years ago! And to this very day we still have no ventilation system in place for our stove, unless you count opening two doors and a window while I wave an empty pizza box at the invisible fumes. So you can understand my surprise, joy, shock, and increasing salivatory gland activity when I saw this from my boyfriend: 
I love how he stuck a bow on it :)
And since we have nothing else to do (insert laughter here!) we thought we might as well install the sucker. Unfortunately, Jeremy found that no studs were available for mounting. Being my own personal handyman, he opened up the drywall to add some 2x4 pieces so that the back of the hood can be screwed securely above the stove and not fall into my skillet.
Side note - with a hood in place, I will be able to cook things like bacon...which I am very excited about. Before, pretty much all meats or stirfry or basically anything that produced a smell had to be cooked outside...on the grill...in the cold. My boyfriend has a ridiculously strong sniffer. If I made bacon, he would try to cover the odor with a generous dose of Febreze. Believe me, Blossoms & Breeze and pork do not mix.
After he ran the wires, I fixed the drywall with a quick coat of mud. Tonight I can do one more coat of joint compound and we should be ready for the backsplash! YEA! And on a sidenote, we got the hood on sale with free shipping so it ended up costing a whole lot less than the Kenmore version that we were looking at getting. On the downside, we have all Kenmore appliances EXCEPT the hood - and it would have been nice to have all matching brands (for resale value). BUT on the upside, we got loads of more goodies with the cheaper-but-better Arietta. What goodies?
- 400CFM 3 speed blower (compare to Kenmore's 270 CFM)
- Filter Saturation Alarm that says clean/replace the filters
interpretation: your hood will stay good
- Temperature Sensor that adjusts to cooktop underneath it
interpretation: less boiling over the pot that boiled over
- Ductless kit is optional and available for purchase
6 comments:
katie!!! that is sooooo cool!!! you have waiting with bated breath to see the new kitchen...if that is how i spell it!!!
lol @ your interpretations! Here's how I'd put it up: 1) show your husband the box, 2) Make him do it 3) when he complains tell him it's sooooo easy even you could do it.
:) Done!
You are such a tease! I want to see the kitchen before and progress pics!!
Wow, I literally cannot imagine doing all those renovations on my own (even with a worker). Crazy. Nice job.
Tease!! I have serious hood envy right now. We don't have one, so that means actually bakin' our bacon instead of skillet style. Can't wait to see everything, girl!
(Love the countertop, is it granite?)
I dont have/have never had a hood so I know nothing about them. That said, I dont think it really matters if your appliances are the same brand as long as they are all the same color.
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