Top Tips For Choosing The Best Refrigerator For Kitchen

What is it about a kitchen that makes them such an excellent room to congregate in? Is it the fact that they have everything you need, like food and drinks in it? Usually that's the case, but some people have such a well put together cooking area that people just feel comfortable there.

Since you now know this, shouldn't you get a refrigerator and other appliances (like a convection toaster oven or possibly even an antique stove) that will be pleasant to look at and even more importantly, useful? With all the different types of fridges out there, you really can't go wrong (and that's not even including mini, portable, outdoor under counter, or wine fridges).

 So just think about what would go well with your kitchen. If all your other appliances are stainless steel, then it's really a no brainer that your fridge should be too. If everything in your kitchen is light, you should probably stick with a traditional white fridge. Or you could try a glass door model, which is more expensive but extremely modern. Of course, if everything is darker, get a black fridge (they also go well with granite counter tops).

 There are a few main styles, the side by side, which have equal sized fridge and freezer portions in a horizontal orientation, as well as French door models with a bottom freezer. There are also large, wide counter depth fridges for those odd spaces you need to fill. Of course, the old school style with top freezer and single door models are still available from all your favorite brands, like Samsung, GE, LG, Avanti, Frigidaire, Whirlpool, Maytag, and HotPoint.

 As for the aforementioned convection toaster ovens, consider that they can be for the counter top or mountable. They do an amazing job of warming and toasting your food, with the precision of a full blown oven, but the speed of a microwave. It's like a compact oven being fast forwarded. It's incredibly useful. You can look for them from Bosch, Cuisinart, Oster, or Kitchenaid.

If you are starting the planning process of designing your kitchen either as a brand new one or a remodel you have a lot to decide. There are many options available from styles to colors. Even the appliances have a lot of choices. You may not have considered that there are very many different styles of refrigerators. Nevertheless, not only are there different styles and colors there are also many different door options for refrigerators. One trendy door style for refrigerators are French doors.

 A French door refrigerator brings an elegant look to any kitchen. These types of refrigerators are designed to be more modern and contemporary. It comes in a variety of colors and models as well. Even though the design is beautiful it is also still useful. It does not matter how beautiful a French door refrigerator is, or any appliance for that matter, if it isn't practically. If these appliances will be used in a functioning kitchen it needs to be useful.

A French door refrigerator fits all the needs of a kitchen owner from beauty to function. This refrigerator is a side-by-side design, which is becoming popular. Nevertheless, it has doors that are narrower than traditional side-by-side refrigerator doors.

This helps it to be open which allows for more room to be open around it. This feature helps it to fit perfectly in any kitchen because opening the door doesn't take up much space. It makes it nearly impossible that when opening the door it will get in the way of the general flow of the room.

No longer will the cook at the stove get hit with an opening refrigerator door while cooking or someone will no longer have to wait to enter the kitchen while someone searches for a snack through the refrigerator with the door wide open.

 Other features of this refrigerator is that it could have a freezer section or section that pulls out found at the bottom that can be used for frozen foods or fresh foods. some doors can have an ice and water dispenser and some even have TVs in one of the doors. Make sure these features don't take away from the space you might need for the everyday items you will be storing in the refrigerator.

Knowing how your refrigerator will be used is a big key as to what style and size refrigerator you should buy for your new kitchen. Do you have little kids that open and close the door just for the fun of it? Or do you have teenagers who will stand with the door wide open while daydreaming of the boy in the front row or the big game tomorrow night? Are they looking for a glass of milk or something for a sandwich? There are refrigerators that have doors within doors to allow one to get at the milk or juice stored in the extra deep shelf on the inside of the door.

 Ice dispensing mechanisms built into the freezer door helps keep the temperature in the freezer compartment close to the near zero temperature that it is designed to keep. Also, this same mechanism can disburse cold filtered drinking water. It can be a thirst-saver during the hot months. If you do buy a refrigerator that has a built-in filtering system, be sure to maintain the suggested schedule for changing the filter.

It does no good to have a water filter, if you do not do your part and actually replace the filter when indicated. Make sure that the placement of the refrigerator and freezer allows the doors to be completely opened.

You will need this ability to be able to remove the shelving from the units for a thorough cleaning. Also, you will want the placement of the refrigerator to be part of the 'golden triangle' STOVE-REFRIGERATOR-SINK of kitchen interior design. Ideally, you want those three pieces of your kitchen to be in direct relationship with each other.

The idea is that you take things out of the refrigerator to the sink and then to the stove. Make sure that you have enough counter space (by your definition) next to each of the big three so that the space is workable for your needs. When you are putting away groceries from the store, you will want to have available counter space to separate and divide up which food goes where.

 Do you need a refrigerator that has really wide shelves rather than the traditional side by side? Those are available as well. You can get refrigerators with glass doors so you can see what is inside. We had one that was originally designed to be used as a wine cooler, but we used it as a dedicated refrigerator for fruits and vegetables.

We kept the temperature a little higher than the standard one and the fruits and vegetables did great - lasted longer and we had less wasted food. It was strange to begin with but we all adjusted quickly.

 As you can see, once you decide how the refrigerator is to be used, it becomes easier to choose which refrigerator to buy and use.