I have loved O'Keefe and Merritt stoves for years but it was never the right time to buy one. I just saw one at my local antique mall for $1,200 but it was pretty beat up and WAY over priced! So when Dave Stuckey and his wife Andrea Stuckey posted a picture of this beauty on their facebook pages, I fell in love with it but figured it was out of reach. They got me in contact with the seller and I found out that it was indeed still for sale, and they would take $250 for it! That next day we went to pick it up, and a few days later we had the gas company install it. When it was all shinned up I took some photos to show you:
The top right burner is a Wilcolator, which can keep a pot on the stove at a consistent temp that you set, good for soups and stews. Normally the thermometer is broken but ours works perfectly and we use it for pasta sauce all the time! It is cool to see the fire automatically go up and down to control the temp!
Broiler
It has a glass shelf too, perfect for cooling pies!
Griddle- a little dirty still from breakfast that morning
optional 5th burner
oven
Storage compartment
Star burners!
After doing a little research, it appears that this may be a DeVille model, "The Cadillac of Ranges'! What an amazing coincidence huh? I think this stove found ME, not visa versa! The stove works great too! We especially love the griddle and use it for everything!
The seller also threw in this record player when we bought the stove!
I like the colors!
It is a Silvertone, works, but just needs a new needle.
We also completed one more little project in the kitchen:
We added some decorative wood trim to the cabinets above our stove. I made a paper template, my 11 year old brother helped me cut it out with a jigsaw, put it into place....
and then I sanded it. When I was sanding it my brother took this pic to show "that I am more then just a pretty face". Too cute!
Then I pained it up! I think it's simply delicate!
I love the heart, my own special touch!
XOXO
Dollie
10 comments:
Heah there! Love the stove you are so lucky to find on in such great shape! My husband and Father actually just picked up a 1951 Roper today, it was my Husband's Grandmothers and has been in the basement for who knows how long. Unfortunately, it's not in the best shape I think I'm going to have to get the outside redone.
Gorgeous! My Mother has one *just* like that. It was my Grandmother's. Great work on everything else, looks super cute.
OMG that stove is to die for!
damn that oven is a BEAST! it has everything an oven should have and more, what a great find!!!
the trim looks great too, you're so handy!
Really nice!!!!
so stinkin' cute!
Oh your stove is so Cadillac! Gorgeous!! I wish we had a kitchen that allowed for a vintage stove...damn them for being bigger then stoves today. I especially love the star burners...I love attention to detail. Can't wait to see some of the great stuff you make on this oven.
That bstove is amazing and your little trim is so cute too :)
where do you live and what is the name of the shop you got the stove at? i would totally get a stove like that for $250! thanks!
Great stove- you got a GREAT deal! And your kitchen is so darn cute!
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