New Appliances

[MeredithMan]

Originally Posted by Winilyme

Thanks all. For sure, our first and maybe only stop will be Baron's in Belmont.

Regarding the dishwasher, we're looking at KitchenAid due to our satisfaction with them at our CT home.

I'm still researching the range. One thing I'm noticing is it seems the single oven units seem to have sacrificed the storage drawer below for a larger oven. Totally makes sense - but for us, with a rather small kitchen, losing that drawer hurts.

Fridge wise, we require a cabinet-depth unit so that reduces options quite a bit - though I'm finding that they are so much more popular than years ago. We've always gone with side-by-sides in the past but we're thinking we'll go with a french door/bottom freezer model. Have any of you had both in the past? Thoughts on what you like best and why?

We've had both side-by-side and French Door. As Descant mentioned in his or her post, the side-by-side ends up being very narrow, especially the freezer, (unless you get one of the huge sub-zero ones), so any large frozen items don't fit, (e.g., big frozen pizza, etc). You can fit pretty much anything in the french door/freezer below models. The only thing we have found is that sometimes you can end up piling a bunch of stuff in the freezer and you forget what's at the bottom of the pile until you dig down and find that something is 2 or 3 yrs old! My wife the Mechanical Engineer also states that freezer-under models are more efficient because cold air naturally sinks.