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12-ish years ago, we renovated the kitchen in our old home. We put in new dishwasher, cooktop, oven, and refrigerator. All were Kitchenaid Architect. The cooktop was the second from the top, gas, and the only 2 things that it was missing was an LED that came-on/stayed-on to tell you that it was hot and a special coating to make it easier to clean. If we'd known, we'd have paid for the model with the special coating. We never had a problem with it. The oven was a convection oven. We never used the convection much, but we never had a problem with the oven. We gave our kids the fridge. While they had it the icemaker stopped working. When they moved and we moved into a house, they gave us the fridge and we're still using it. We don't currently have water hooked up to it so the icemaker being broken isn't a big deal. When we get the new fridge for our soon to start renovation of the new kitchen, this fridge will move to the garage to replace the old one that's out there. The dishwasher developed a problem with the keypad. Sometimes you'd have to press a button a bunch of times for it to work. I eventually worked out that it wasn't the keypad itself, but the control module. I ordered one off of the Internet, installed it, and that fixed it. I think all of those things were a bit <$10k back then. I feel like the same stuff if you could get it now would be closer to $15-20k.