Vintage stove or new stove? {Your advice, please!}

Hello friends! I hope you are all doing well!

I have an appliance dilemma, and was hoping I could get your advice! :)

Three years ago, I bought a vintage stove off Craigslist. I bought it despite the fact that it needed to be rewired, and also needed three out of four new elements, and both oven elements replaced...




{Please ignore our half finished breakfast room!}

I had my reasons for going ahead with the purchase despite said facts: {wink} 

It was the exact stove I was looking for {a 1940's Kelvinator}.

The chrome and porcelain was in excellent condition, except for one knick on the top side, which I can fix.

It had potential and good bones, and it would just take a lot of scrubbing and some recoating of the oven drawers on my part...

 


and of course, rewiring on the part of my husband. ;)

We have bought all of the parts necessary for this project, but now I am second guessing myself.

A vintage stove has been one of my big "kitchen dreams" for quite a while. And for quite a while my little stove has been waiting in a corner of our breakfast room...

I have thought maybe we should forego one of too many to-dos on our list and simply buy a new, clean stove...

And my, oh my, if one could have any new stove in the world, what of this gorgeous stove?

{Landmark Kitchens UK}

{Love.}

{Landmark Kitchens UK}

Or this one?

{Landmark Kitchens UK}

Absolutely delicious, isn't it?

And there is always the option of buying the new old stove, such as this lovely made by Big Chill:

{Big Chill.com}

Realistically, if we go the "new" route, we will purchase something more like this:

{Lowes.com}

 
It is just so fun to dream! :)

However, I must admit candidly, that there is just nothing quite like the real thing, at least for me.






Here is a little like what I picture our old stove looking in our kitchen:



{Better Homes and Gardens}


Doesn't the stove pictured look right at home?



{Big Chill.com}



There is just something about old things, they add something very special and unique to the room. 

SO...if the choice was yours, what would you do? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!


I hope you all have a beautiful Wednesday, and thank you so much for stopping by! :)


Blessings,
Jenni