Oh what a joyous thing it is to go appliance shopping! We've done no buying yet, but I sure had a good time in the 45 minutes or so we spent with the salesman - half an hour of which was after store closing time - learning about the different features of modern washers, dryers, refrigerators and ranges.
I'm just trying not to get my hopes up too high for the convection oven, on which one of the three shelves can be reduced to half the size of the rest and thus you can fit taller dishes in the oven along with the short stuff. What a glorious thing that would be!
So keep watching. Someday soon, if all goes according to plan, we'll have appliances to fill these holes in the wall!