Agree with @Consolation here. I put double ovens in twenty years ago. At that time, only one was convection, but their replacement includes two convection ovens.
A microwave is more of an afterthought for me. I have a small one mounted under a cabinet away from the cooking/prep area. It is used for quick reheats only.
My mother has the M/W mounted above the range. I never liked the idea of all those rays right at eye level.
I have hosted many a Thanksgiving and other holiday with 20+ guests. We have a wall oven/microwave combo. The microwave and oven both have convection , which I use rarely, but not never. The microwave has this ultima fast cook which I LOVE for things like baked potatoes and when I used to make cinnamon rolls for the kids in the morning. We have done just fine with one oven. And our house, while not in our price range, is not cheap.
Busy days right now. Was at the engineer’s office until 10pm last night catching all kinds of mistakes, corrections not addressed, printing one page at a time on their slow printer, collating and stapling. I did not receive a phone call so I took the initiative to just drive into their office at 4pm. Lucky I did because they had not even started producing the plans needed for the 4 appointments I have at the City today.
All said and done, I have only 3 sets of plans to go into City today and I just hope that is enough. Meetings all day with City Building Department and I have to submit two full sets of plans for full review also.
The reasoning behind the Oven/Micro combo is that the microwave has convection ability also. Therefore you get 1 1/2 ovens during peak periods. Turkey can go into big oven and casseroles into the microwave using the convection oven feature.
I personally have the Ultra Cook feature at home and I use it a lot for baked potatoes and some other things. You can have 4 perfectly done potatoes in 18 minutes!!!
The new configuration of the old garage eliminates 116 sq ft to squeak under fire sprinkler requirements. We’ll see if it works in my meeting today Basically we are down to a 3 car garage with storage in the previous 4th stall. I also had to eliminate the nice large wash up sink that is currently in the garage because the Zoning people insisted that I was trying to turn it into a liveable apartment thing. Geez…I can see their logic but I really doubt that someone buying this house is going to try to carve out a rental apartment in the garage
We have a micro/ convection oven over a traditional/ convection oven in our kitchen. Personally, we rarely use ovens (other than microwave, mostly to reheat), even when we entertained often. My sibs have houses in and over your price range. Some have one oven, some have two. Seems to be a matter of preference and what your realtor recommends.
Good luck with the city. Sounds like that engineering firm is pretty awful for you!
I’m short and put my micro in a lower cab, in a microwave cabinet with drawers under, when I remodeled. Never had to worry about spilling down my front.
Another success. Structural completely signed off and fire sprinkler requirement removed!!! Even better, all kinds of fees removed due to smaller sq ft and no fire requirement
Just got sign off from Bldg construction!! But I had to lose one bathroom and/or toilet or something in order to get under the water usage limit. Because of all the bathrooms and jack/Jill configuration I’ve got 7 toilets in the house!!
After careful review the gentleman let me get away with removing garage sink and laundry sink.
I know you are all going to scream about laundry sink:) it was either that or be required to upgrade water meter and run an entire new 1" water main pipe up to the house. That’s not going to happen!!
The only hurdle I have left is the Zoning guy. He is adamant that the basement bath is illegal and he’s very nasty about it.But i have to resubmit plans into black hole and wait probably 10 days.
Bottom line is we have foundation and framing approved so I am comfortable moving ahead with all the work to form new foundation. If I have to close up basement bath I can worry about that later. We really cannot move past Step 1 until I can call for an inspection.