A new refrigerator is an opportunity to upgrade your technology your kitchen design and your lifestyle.
French doors or side by side.
While they vary in height width and depth the arrangement doesn t vary.
Tyler lizenby cnet as for the french door model it performed better than the side by.
Virtually all side by side refrigerators are the same design.
The side by side refrigerators have vertical fridge and freezer space with shelving.
While french door refrigerators are the most popular choice the side by side was standard issue in upscale homes for decades and with good reason.
Some models have multiple drawers below the fridge that are temperature controlled from chilled to frozen.
Their asymmetrical proportions and clean look make any modern home more functional and sleek looking.
The freezer has the capacity to fit more frozen goods compared to the french door.
The french door model fared a little better but we still saw a pesky hot spot on that top main body shelf.
With french doors one door usually gets hung up on the other and it simply pauses won t close all the way not without an extra push.
Most french door options have at least one lower drawer that stores frozen items.
You can put a french door in the same space because the freezer drawer doesn t need swing room and the upper doors are the same as side by side and they ve become popular because you have so much more horizontal space in both the.
Probably because of the growing popularity manufacturers have introduced several versions that play with the amount and arrangement of all compartments.
Side by side were invented for small apartment kitchens that didn t have the swing space for a full width door.
Some french door units have an extra revolving door guard which helps the doors close and keeps out the air better.
Of all of the refrigerator designs french door appears to find itself that the most amenable to ingenious redesign.
The freezer as far as we can determine is always on the left and the fridge is always on the right.
French door fridges are on the upswing growing in market share each year.
Until recently french door models were more expensive than their side by side counterparts but new offerings from samsung and lg are closing.