My new (used) range

[Minelson]

I bought a range on Craigs list. It's 2 year old barely used Kenmore that I got for $150. I was so excited. Picked it up, installed it and tested it out. Works great! I was making supper, went to get a fork, opened the drawer..thunk. The drawer won't open because the oven door handle is in the way.
Why can't anything be easy.
I guess I'll have to re-arrange everything and use that drawer for things I hardly ever use. It can be opened but the oven door has to be opened first. I got the new range because I had to use that same drawer to keep that oven door closed! What a pain.

[Texasdirtdigger]

OHHHHH! I'm sorry. You're right.... not much seems easy these days!
Chin up and re-arrange.

[DamnearaFarm]

lol, rearRANGE

I hear ya on that, Minelson. When we lived in the house before, the antique stove sat where the fridge is now. We thought we'd sold the house and the man changed the locations. No biggie, we thought, since this allowed us a larger fridge. We borrowed a fridge from a friend until we got one of our own. Brought the new (to us) fridge in and while it fit in the space fine, with plenty of head room, somehow the position put it in a bind and the door wouldn't shut! I guess it was subtly twisted and that was enough to make it not seal. So out came the fridge and in went me with a knife, shaving off slivers of the incriminating cabinet. In goes the fridge, open stays the door, out comes the fridge, in goes me with a knife. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Finally, we pulled out the saw and cut the side out of the cabinet to just above the height of the fridge. That's all we could do, no more cutting or moving space available. Now it's closer to sealing and we had to buy toddler latches and install one on the fridge door to keep it sealed.
*sigh*
Ain't new appliances FUN?!?!?

[nehimama]

The scrawny li'l house DH and I bought in 2003 had a surprise in the kitchen. Not so drastic as you guys with the major appliances, though. The ceiling fan was so close to the cabinet doors over the sink, that you'd open a door and immediately hear "KLUNK, KLUNK, KLUNK" if the fan was on. Put up with it for a few years, then had an electrician install a new one far enough away to avoid the KLUNK.

[DamnearaFarm]

That reminds me, nehimama- we had the same situation in the house we lived in before we moved to New Mexico. The previous owner had installed a huge, fancy ceiling fan that caught the edges of the pantry doors whenever it was opened.