The GE Advantium / Trivection technologies sound pretty swank, but I wonder if they're just something else to break or go wrong. The Fisher & Paykel dishwashers are pretty swank, but their reliability numbers aren't so hot.

I think it's smart to go with an electric oven and a gas stovetop. Right now, our rental place has a Thermidor all-gas range, and the oven takes forever to heat up. Our earlier, basic GE oven heated up much much faster and was always right on target.

Of course, if you want to really maximize the funky, you could get an Aga stove. You'd never want one in a hot climate like Texas, but in Canada it might make some sense. (An Aga is a giant, cast-iron, heavy beast, that slowly burns fuel, roughly 1KW steady state, to maintain a target temperature. You then learn to know which parts of the oven are at what different temperatures. This side hotter than that side, etc.)