Our New Fridge!
Well, we finally bit the bullet and shelled out for a nice new (and BIG) fridge. Isn't it pretty?
Our old fridge had been making scary pings and knocking noises for quite a while, and we managed to sock away enough that we could pay cash for it (important in these days of crunchy credit), so we trundled off to Abt after work a couple of weeks ago (as the stock market was tanking, as a matter of fact) to see what we could find. We lucked into this floor model for many hundreds off list price. It has a lot more features than we were looking for!
This filtered water dispenser, for example. When we had the kitchen remodeled four years ago, we kept the old range and fridge to save some money. And, though the contractor wanted to include a water hookup for a fridge, we declined that too, to save money. But this fridge had the water in the door and an ice maker in the freezer, and it was cheaper than any model we liked without those features (and, since our space required a counter-depth, which for some reason is much more expensive than the huger standard models, all our options were pricey), so we opted to have the delivery guys install the water line too... And that was almost a disaster.
At first it appeared as if they wouldn't be able to do it, because there wasn't a way to get into the water wall without taking out a chunk of drywall. Then--Whew!--I thought to look behind the washer, which is located right behind the wall where the fridge stands. Voila! an access panel into the water wall. Yea! Filtered water, right in the door! And a whole array of buttons to tell you exactly what the temp of the fridge and freezer are. And a bunch of other stuff I haven't figured out yet.
As you can see, it has lots of room, and the shelves slide out so shorty me can reach it all.
We opted for the freezer on the bottom because I would rather haul the Thanksgiving turkey or some other heavy hunk of frozen stuff up and out of a drawer than run the risk of pulling it out from a space over my head. Although my back may not much care about the difference.
So, now (barring any major appliance malfunction) the kitchen is done and thoroughly updated. Now on to the rest of our old condo.
Our old fridge had been making scary pings and knocking noises for quite a while, and we managed to sock away enough that we could pay cash for it (important in these days of crunchy credit), so we trundled off to Abt after work a couple of weeks ago (as the stock market was tanking, as a matter of fact) to see what we could find. We lucked into this floor model for many hundreds off list price. It has a lot more features than we were looking for!
This filtered water dispenser, for example. When we had the kitchen remodeled four years ago, we kept the old range and fridge to save some money. And, though the contractor wanted to include a water hookup for a fridge, we declined that too, to save money. But this fridge had the water in the door and an ice maker in the freezer, and it was cheaper than any model we liked without those features (and, since our space required a counter-depth, which for some reason is much more expensive than the huger standard models, all our options were pricey), so we opted to have the delivery guys install the water line too... And that was almost a disaster.
At first it appeared as if they wouldn't be able to do it, because there wasn't a way to get into the water wall without taking out a chunk of drywall. Then--Whew!--I thought to look behind the washer, which is located right behind the wall where the fridge stands. Voila! an access panel into the water wall. Yea! Filtered water, right in the door! And a whole array of buttons to tell you exactly what the temp of the fridge and freezer are. And a bunch of other stuff I haven't figured out yet.
As you can see, it has lots of room, and the shelves slide out so shorty me can reach it all.
We opted for the freezer on the bottom because I would rather haul the Thanksgiving turkey or some other heavy hunk of frozen stuff up and out of a drawer than run the risk of pulling it out from a space over my head. Although my back may not much care about the difference.
So, now (barring any major appliance malfunction) the kitchen is done and thoroughly updated. Now on to the rest of our old condo.
Labels: refrigeration
posted by Cathy VanPatten at 7:25 PM
1 Comments:
That is nice! It looks like it has a really good amount of storage space, especially in the freezer compartment.
You've just reminded me. I think we need a new filter on our refrigerator water dispenser. I'll have to remember to tell Steven.
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