[pbs911]

My wife and I are currently doing the same thing, except its the entire house. For the appliances, Lowes has some good prices. They also have a 10% off coupon up to $10k purchase that is good till 1/2/05. If you are buying all your appliances from Lowes, they should give you a 10% break as well even without a coupon. We also visting The Great Indoors, which is a new Sears home superstore. There are some good prices there.

For a dishwasher, look at the Bosch models. They are as silent and as energy efficient as you can get. You standard fridgs such as Kitchenaid are quality. They just have the one motro and half the life of the top lines such as Sub Zero. It just gets my goat that you have to pay $2k plus for a fridg that is a built in (24" in depth) so it doesn't stick out 5" from the average cabinet.

I would keep away from Wally World and the like unless you know exactly the model you want and you can get a better price. Chances are, however, the quality products will not permit such stores to sell their products.

As an aside, the thing that gets me with "We will beat our competitors price by 10%" advertising is that no one seems to carry the same models. Hence, they have no competition to beat.

Let us know what you find.