Check out the Kitchen section where many people are remodeling or building kitchens. When we remodeled our kitchen, I found a world of info there and tons of pics to browse through. My house is all electric so I was limited in my range choices. I ended up with the 40" Kenmore Elite electric/double oven (one regular, one smaller), 5 burner,convection and I love it. It is great for the holiday cooking and everyday use. My favorite appliances have been the range, Fisher Paykel dish drawers, and the 3 door fridge. Good luck in your choices and enjoy the process!! Here is a link that might be useful: My kitchen remodel

Thank you SO much everyone! It seems most of you are for the CD fridge. We have a small fridge - the kind found in dorm rooms (not tall and skinny but short) which we could also use but there's no practical space to put that in besides the basement. But our kids aren't allowed to drink soda, my husband keeps only a few beers in the fridge at a time, and I keep my diet cokes in room-temp storage so I don't even know what would go in the small fridge. I'm certainly not willing to keep food down there or regular drinks like juice/milk so I really do think we'd be stuck w/ the CD fridge for most of it. I could keep our old fridge in the basement for holiday meals as well as all the drinks we presently keep in room-temp storage, however I was upgrading to an energy-efficient fridge! why would I want to have the new fridge AND the old fridge, considering that?! Going up in 3 cubic feet in size on for the fridge portion (free food), when I picture gigantic dice of a cubic foot each in size, that seems like a decent (not great, but decent) improvement... (I hope)! Here's what I'm too dumb to figure out: if the fresh food portion of a fridge includes the space in the door/doors - regardless of whether it's a 1990 standard fridge or the new french door kinds - how does that translate based on the new layout? In other words my current old fridge has very little door space; it has only one door and its shelves for condiments and butter. The new fridges have space for at least 2 gallons of milk in the door, but less space for condiments and yet still some space for them. So if the milk will no longer be on the main shelves but in the door, does that mean I'll get all that added space on the main shelves + the additional 3 cubic feet of fridge space? Anyway...thanks for helping me figure all this stuff out!

You'll need a 15 amp dedicated circuit to power that thing. Just how reliable do you expect a $190 freezer to be ?

I have some elderly relatives who need something like a bar fridge, which will only hold fruit and maybe sodas. It has to be free standing. They don't care much about noise, but knowing how annoying some can be, I'd say that it doesn't have to be anywhere near Perlick silent, but shouldn't be obtrusively loud or ringy dingy. It does need to be mechanically sound. The prior holder of that spot had been a 30+ year old, ac/dc freezing to fridge temperature (by a dial) unit that had been used as a freezer for RVing and Costco runs, and for the last couple of decades was sitting in the corner chilling oranges and other overflow produce, plus the occasional soda. What they've decided on for the purpose now is a 32"(-ish) tall fridge, in the 4+ cubic foot range. By low end, I don't mean the kind that's supposed to make it through one year in a dorm room. Their budget could handle Perlick, but it's way overkill. I'm thinking more around $500. Any recommendations?