HOUSEography: Is it sad to love appliances?

Not when it's a new LG front load washer and dryer and you have 2 kids and a husband who wears t-shirts and jeans to the office and plays with sawdust at night. Until Wednesday, here's what we had -

They are about 7 years old. Nothing wrong with them except that they are not efficient, fairly small (even at the time we bought them), and make a racket whenever they are on. When we did the addition, we decided to save some much needed money and keep these instead of replacing them. Our original laundry room was in the basement (of course) so moving it upstairs felt like a huge improvement all on its own.

So, we were planning on keeping these for a few more years until I got serious washer jealousy when we were visiting my parents over Christmas. They got a new LG stackable washer and dryer last year and of course I loved it. So, I started doing research and I liked the LGs. They have a slightly smaller footprint than the Samsung (my second choice) and we needed the space as you can see from the size of the laundry room above. But, I was still waiting for a good sale. January was pretty much sale-free. I guess it's TV time, not sale time. I was watching Best Buy and Home Depot mostly, since Lowes doesn't seem to sell LG. The price was always 10% off but that didn't seem like a good enough deal to jump on it.

Then last week, Best Buy sent around a nice little coupon book for RewardZone Silver members (we are members because of our TV and fridge purchases during our reno). Wouldn't you know... a 30% off coupon for LG washers and dryers!!! Holy moly. I had to stop myself from jumping in the car right then and there!

Last weekend we finally went and ordered them. That was a bit of a process because they only had one (very nice) sales person in the appliance area so it took about 30 minutes longer than it should have. And the original dryer model I wanted was discontinued. Phew...

They were delivered on Wednesday and we had scheduled the dryer installation for Thursday. The delivery guy was doubtful that we would be able to fit both. I told him that clearly he doesn't know us very well. He chuckled (but clearly thought I was crazy). Fortunately, we came to our senses and realized we do the installation ourselves.

So, Wednesday night, Jim got out his wrench collection and went to town on the installation. The dryer went in without a hitch thanks to the new gas line kit and dryer vent. I wish we could push the dryer back another 3 inches but maybe we can figure that out some other time. Next we did the washer which is a story in and of itself. We were able to carefully push it into the room and then turn it 90 degrees. It barely fit but we made it. Then we had to figure out how to get the metal overflow pan under it (essential for second floor laundries). That's a whole story unto itself but we did it and we opened a bottle of wine after because we were so proud.