yes, i love it. It's not a side-by-side freezer/fridge. The whole top is fridge. It's much better than 1 big door.

The rich have seperate full sized builtin freezer and fridges

The rich have seperate full sized builtin freezer and fridges

The rich have seperate full sized builtin freezer and fridges

Anonymous wrote:Like this one:
[img]I thought this style was what we wanted to replace our aging standard fridge-down-freezer-up wide door refrigerator, but after using one for a few days in a rental house, I'm not so sure. It was really annoying how you had to often open both doors to find something, which was problematic if you were holding something in one hand...

Give it some time - you'll get into habit of storing certain things in certain spots (milk - bottom right door, eggs - left top shelf, etc etc) and you'll be opening just one door most of the times.

Anonymous wrote:Clearly I am not in the so called consensus since I just bought a side-by-side after having a bottom freezer. I hate having to bend down every time I use the freezer, and I'm in there a lot!

+1. I hate the bottom freezers with a passion.

Clearly I am not in the so called consensus since I just bought a side-by-side after having a bottom freezer. I hate having to bend down every time I use the freezer, and I'm in there a lot!

If you don't need the French doors, but like the bottom freezer, why not just get a single door on top with a bottom freezer? They make them and they're often cheaper than French door fridges.

We love our French door because it lets us open the fridge without completely blocking the doorway to our dining room, but if we didn't have space constraints I don't know if I'd bother.

Anonymous wrote:
DCUM has this discussion all the time.

Consensus is that French doors are much better, but you have to get the kind where you can open one door at a time, and the kind with an organizing drawer at the bottom. Then it's well nigh perfect!

Consensus also has it that Side by sides are awful because they're so narrow big platters, pizzas, etc cannot fit, plus you're always bending down and looking through all the little shelves to find your stuff.

Search the archives for endless info on this topic.

The one in the rental you could do that, but I still had to open both because I never knew where anything was. Maybe it would be better if we had it a while and knew which side we put things on.

DCUM has this discussion all the time.

Consensus is that French doors are much better, but you have to get the kind where you can open one door at a time, and the kind with an organizing drawer at the bottom. Then it's well nigh perfect!

Consensus also has it that Side by sides are awful because they're so narrow big platters, pizzas, etc cannot fit, plus you're always bending down and looking through all the little shelves to find your stuff.

Search the archives for endless info on this topic.

Love mine. Lots of space. I have a samsung and only open 1 door sometimes. I like the big freezer on the bottom -- very roomy, which is why it can turn onto a dumping ground.

Love it! Was fine with the side by side we had before that too. I guess I don't get amped up about opening my fridge.

We have a samsung one and you can open one door or the other. We replaced the side by side because it made the freezer and fridge too narrow causing you to have to stack items.

I hate that style. The freezer is just a big dumping ground. And I have to open two doors to get to see the food in the fridge.


LOVE side by side. Just get one with a big freezer. If you get 30+ cubic feet you won't have space issues.

Like this one:


I thought this style was what we wanted to replace our aging standard fridge-down-freezer-up wide door refrigerator, but after using one for a few days in a rental house, I'm not so sure. It was really annoying how you had to often open both doors to find something, which was problematic if you were holding something in one hand. I did love the refrigerator being on top, though That makes so much more sense to me.

We have a small kitchen, although unless we change the configuration in a reno way down the line, there's plenty of room to open the refrigerator on both sides.

I will not, after having had one, get a side-by-side refrigerator. The freezers are much too narrow, and even the fridge part was problematic for dinner parties, etc.