Do GE appliances scream cookie-cutter home? (very expensive, contractor, cheap, cost)
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The vast majority of new homes built in the town I live in have Thermador appliances. Does that mean Thermador screams "cookie cutter" too?
As others have said, you should choose appliances that are appropriate for the price point your house sits in. If it's a high end house, then brands like Wolf, SubZero, Thermador, Miele, etc. would be great. If it's a more middle of the range house than GE is totally fine.
With GE appliances so ubiquitous in tract homes, I wonder, do they scream cookie-cutter home? Do they affect they affect the home's resale value compared to other brands?
They aren't ubiquitous in tract homes, anymore than certain Whirlpool owned brands are.
Well, some builders may offer GE or Whirlpool as base options, but offer higher-end brands as upgrades, such as Cafe and Monogram on the GE side or KitchenAid or Jenn-Air on the Whirlpool side, with highest offerings being luxury brands such as Thermador, Wolf, Sub-Zero, or Viking. I know one major Arizona builder who offers GE, GE Profile, Cafe, Monogram, and Sub-Zero/Wolf.
When I used to build custom homes, everyone had to have the SubZero/Wolf/Viking stuff. Lots of problems and pricey to repair.
Our last home (for us) we coulda had anything reasonable. Research showed GE had better reviews re dependability so we went with one of their higher-end lines and so far, so good. I think most appliances nowadays are similar, I suspect many are made in the same factories in China. We had Bosch in our last home and were not impressed......
None of our GE appliances scream at me.
I'm going to guess though, that most of our clients, after touring a home, could not tell you what brand the appliances (or the faucets) were. It's just way down the list of what most people are looking at when touring a home. They can probably tell you the color and whether the appliances looked new... but that's about it, unless there's something pretty special or different in there.
With GE appliances so ubiquitous in tract homes, I wonder, do they scream cookie-cutter home? Do they affect they affect the home's resale value compared to other brands?
Maybe buy a bunch of magnetic Gucci logos and slap em on over top of the GE logo?
My GE appliances are fairly quiet. Haven't heard a scream out of them in years.
Once the cat screamed when I accidentally closed his tail in the GE oven door, but that turned out to be a good thing because it taught him to stay out of the kitchen when Mom is cooking.
The vast majority of new homes built in the town I live in have Thermador appliances. Does that mean Thermador screams "cookie cutter" too?
As others have said, you should choose appliances that are appropriate for the price point your house sits in. If it's a high end house, then brands like Wolf, SubZero, Thermador, Miele, etc. would be great. If it's a more middle of the range house than GE is totally fine.
I need to bake a cake and the temperature is 350 degrees for 25 minutes. How is the outcome of the cake any different with a standard GE range vs. a Viking range? I can't imagine it to taste differently or look differently based upon brand. I'm willing to buy a GE range if it has good reviews and has the functions I'm looking for such as pre bake, and the numerical pad to punch in the numbers vs. using arrows up or down!
With GE appliances so ubiquitous in tract homes, I wonder, do they scream cookie-cutter home? Do they affect they affect the home's resale value compared to other brands?
Wolf and Subzero appliances are the answers to the question that nobody asked. They are "prosumer" lines with questionable reliability meant for bragging rights, not getting a return on your "investment".
American-made appliances are among the most reliable available on the market. In this exact market sub-segment, large appliances, specifically, production-line US-made makes and models generally exceed the reliability of Samsung and LG. Wolf and Subzero are lower-volume lines, which inevitably introduce their own imperfections by the nature of low-volume production itself. Look no further than handmade Italian cars, for example.
Nice to look at, a financial curse to own.
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